Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Plan and carry out an investigation into the strength of various magnifying lenses.
- Understand that light can be bent when it is slowed down.
- Recognise that white light can be split into 7 rainbow colours.
Activities
- Investigate magnifying lenses, suggesting which cannot magnify enough in given circumstances.
- Explain and demonstrate that light can be bent when it is slowed down.
- Split white light into rainbow colours.
Investigation - exploring
Explore split light (finding ‘rainbows’).
Vocabulary
Light, light source, refraction, mirror, magnifying glass, absorb, direct/ direction, transparent, opaque, translucent, straight, bend, rainbow