The topic I chose for trying a 21st Century learning tool was Properties of Light. For this lesson, I would like to use a Webquest. Here is the link: http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons99/light.html . This is a webquest that asks the students questions but also gives them the resources (links) to find the answers. It also has a demonstration on refraction that can be used during class. The students are then required to use drawings to show details of one of their experiments. This webquest also has activities regarding color blindness. This site will also let you experiment with a prism and see an image shimmer.
A prism can also be used in the classroom to follow up on this concept. This webquest has many vocabulary words related to light and waves and will create a more scientifically literate student.
Hello Carrie,
ReplyDeleteThat is a nice site. I might have come across it once in the past. I found a sight that might be a bit helpful to you. The site is http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/activities/teachers/index.html.
Some others i have used for information are:
Refraction of light: http://riker.ps.missouri.edu/rickspage/refract/refraction.html
Rainbows: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/staff/blynds/rnbw.html
Reflection of Light
http://www.csun.edu/~psk17793/S9CP/S9%20Reflection_of_light.htm
Refraction
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refrn/u14l1b.cfm
Lenses
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/lenses.html
Parts of Eye
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/eyes.html
http://www.allaboutvision.com/eye-exam/refraction.htm
There are also things about blind spots in the human eye that are fun to teach students.
If you had one of those bulbs with a white and dark spinner inside it to show how light is also a particle. I even read somewhere that if you shine a lazor on a sail in space that it will propel it. So what happens to lazors as we shine them into space? Today light has dual nature as a wave and a particle (TTillery, Enger, & Ross, 2008).Which would you cover first?
References
Tillery, B. W., Enger, E. D., & Ross, F. C. (2008). Integrated science (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Thanks, Adam
Thanks for the great sites! That is really interesting about the laser light in space on a snail. How cool is that? An interesting little tidbit to pass on to students. I would cover it first as a wave.
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