You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Crime Lab case files
- Light challenges
Additional resources
- Quiz sheet
Light specialists required
Science Year 6
This unit is part of
Year 6 Science Crime Lab Investigation
Objectives
Take part in a Crime Lab light expert selection challenge. Do you have what it takes to join the investigation? Take a look at the initial crime report and cast your eye over the key suspects.
Science Objectives
i) Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines.
ii) Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye.
iii) Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes.
iv) Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.
Working Scientifically
- Plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary.
- Take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate.
- Record data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, tables, bar and line graphs.
- Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Plan and complete a series of light investigations, identifying variables and ensuring fair testing.
- Suggest patterns and connections based on observations and measurements.
- Draw conclusions and provide answers based on scientific enquiry.
Activities
- Plan and carry out 5 light investigations in response to given enquiry questions.
- Identify variables that need to be controlled in order to achieve a fair test.
- Record and present findings, identifying patterns and drawing conclusions.
Investigation - planning, fair testing, exploring
Investigate a range of simple light challenges.
Vocabulary
Light, light source, names of light sources, dark, reflect, reflective, mirror, shadow, block, absorb, direct/ direction, transparent, opaque, translucent, straight, rainbow, colours