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Students will explore the range of wavelengths that comprise the electromagnetic spectrum of radiation from the sun and associate wavelength with frequency and energy. Students will also be able to identify common uses of Electromagnetic Radiation.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will use a spectroscope to observe the color spectrum of different colors of light. They will observe white, red, blue, yellow, purple, orange and green lights by placing a colored film (which absorbs other colors of white light from the flashlight and transmits light the color of the filter) in front of a strong white flashlight bulb.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson focuses on the standards that require students to understand:

• What is light and how does it travel?
• What is color and how do we see specific colors?

In this lesson students will participate in an observation activity that involves the teacher becoming the boogie man and wearing a specific colored cape. The students will observe the boogie man ( the teacher ) in the room without any sunlight or light from other sources on. Then class will complete a formative assessment using four corners and end the class with a exit slip as a summative.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is a lesson to address the visible light portion of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Students will construct and test prisms, identify the visible light spectrum created from prisms, as well as read informational text, summarize, and share with peers.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this MEA, students will analyze data to determine which type of wave in a lab setting is best suited to power a toy car. Then students will analyze a set of data using data from going outside and using electromagnetic waves from the sun.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students learn about the electromagnetic spectrum.

Type: Lesson Plan

The students will compare/contrast the colors that make up white light in terms of their arrangement in the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Content statements:

• White light is made up of all the colors of light and they are organized in the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum according to their wavelengths.
• Red has the longest wavelengths and violet has the shortest.

Type: Lesson Plan

The students will identify the various types of radiation that come from the Sun and compare/contrast the types of radiation in terms of their arrangement in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Content statements:

• The waves that come from the Sun are organized in the electromagnetic spectrum according to their wavelengths.
• Radio waves have the longest wavelengths and gamma rays have the shortest.

Type: Lesson Plan

Explore the components of solar radiation by examining infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. The article outlines the scientific mindset that led William Herschel to arrive at the discovery of infrared light, an unexpected consequence of an experiment he was conducting. More generally, the article demonstrates the scientific process, from hypothesis to observation and from inference to conclusion.

Type: Text Resource

This is a very interesting web site about the electromagnetic spectrum. It gives great background information and examples on the different types of waves.

Type: Text Resource

This resource helps the user learn the three primary colors that are fundamental to human vision, learn the different colors in the visible spectrum, observe the resulting colors when two colors are added, and learn what white light is. A combination of text and a virtual manipulative allows the user to explore these concepts in multiple ways.

Type: Tutorial

The user will learn the three primary subtractive colors in the visible spectrum, explore the resulting colors when two subtractive colors interact with each other and explore the formation of black color.

Type: Tutorial

The students will combine the colors red, blue, and green to make colors from all across the color spectrum.

Type: Virtual Manipulative