This unit covers all of the Year 5 Physical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. Throughout these lessons, students learn how light travels, is sensed, reflects, refracts or is absorbed and how it forms shadows.
Lesson 1
Introduction to Light
In today's lesson, students will learn how light travels as small particles of energy along waves and light we can see is called the visible spectrum.
Lesson 2
Sight
In this lesson, students will learn how their eyes work in collecting and converting light into signals for our brain.
Lesson 3
Sources of Light
In this lesson students will learn about natural and artificial sources of light and categorise them accordingly.
Lesson 4
Reflection
In this lesson, students will learn about reflections.
Lesson 5
Transmission and Refraction
This lesson, students will learn how light travels and refraction.
Lesson 6
Absorption
In this lesson, students will learn how light is absorbed and how that creates the colour we see.
Lesson 7
Shadows
In this lesson, students will learn what shadows are and how they are created.
Lesson 8
Light Assessment
In this lesson, students will undertake a quiz on light and shadow.
This Sources of Light – Presentation has been created to support Lesson 3 of The Might & Sight of Light unit for Year 5. It allows the teach...
