Light Science and Shadows Unit Lessons and Activities | Paper and Digital

What if you could plan your whole unit on light energy in just minutes? These exciting lessons only take moments to prep. Topics included are transparent, translucent, and opaque materials, colours, refraction, reflection, sources of light, eye safety and so much more. Best of all, your planning only takes as much time as it takes to print (or use the digital version). 

This complete unit includes:

• a set of basic lessons (with instructions to modify for your students) which address the majority of the concepts for the unit including sources of light (natural and artificial), emitting and reflecting light, reflection, angle of reflection, absorption and refraction, breaking light into colours, concave and convex lenses, optical devices, eye safety.
• a set of reading passages that you can use in place of a textbook. Both paper and Google Slides versions are included. The Google Slides version includes loose text which can be read your text-to-speech readers.
• activities to design light devices.
• student pages and templates.
• photographs of student examples.
• answer keys and suggested answers.
• an interactive review game that uses Google Slides.
• a set of art projects that you can use to integrate science and art.
• a collaborative poster about sources of light
• digital versions of the student pages and activities where possible. See the note below about how to access the digital version.
• a bonus unit plan (only available in this bundle)

This resource supports:

• Saskatchewan Science Curriculum Grade 4 LI 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
• Manitoba Science Curriculum Grade 4 4-2-01, 4-2-07
• Ontario Science Curriculum Grade 4 C2.1, C2.2, C2.3
• any upper elementary or middle school science unit about the science of light.
  

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Ninja Note: This file is a ZIP file. It contains all the PDF files for the unit. Buyers need to download the ZIP and extract the PDF files to a computer. To access the digital versions, download the PDFs and use the link in those files.

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