You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Police evidence and Plenary PowerPoints
- Quiz and answers sheets
- 3 activity sheets
- Task and ‘Solve the Crime’ sheet
- Photo of the pocket contents of suspects
- Teachers’ notes
Additional Resources
- A few plastic bowls containing water and a little washing up liquid
- Plenty of drinking straws
- Magnifying lenses and bright torches (at least 10 or each)
- Some old CDs
- Some hanging prisms or other Perspex prisms
- Some sheets of folded A3 white card
- Access to the Internet and some non-fiction books on light
- A colour printout of each of the 3 rainbow activity sheets (it might be a good idea to laminate the bubble one)
- An A3 copy of the sheet called ‘Solving the Crime’ per investigation team
Weblinks
These 2 websites give age appropriate information for the children’s own research into rainbows:
Rainbows research from www.planet-science.com
Rainbows research from www.YouTube.com