Giselle Martinez

Vanessa Lara
Stephanie Garcia
SMT 416
Sept. 19, 2013
Lesson Plan:
Description of Lesson:
How the Scattering of light makes the sky appear blue.
Lesson Objective:
Students will learn why the sky is blue.
Standards:
6b. Students know that for an object to be seen, light emitted by or scattered from it must
be detected by the eye.
6e. Students know that white light is a mixture of many wavelengths (colors) and that
retinal cells react differently to different wavelengths.
Teacher Procedure:
Power Point discussing why is the sky blue.
Method of Assessing Student Understanding:
Word Search with vocabulary terms.
Materials
PowerPoint slides, word search puzzle, prizes
Vocabulary
air, atmosphere, blue, gas, green, molecule, orange, particles, Rayleigh, red, scattering,
sunlight, surface, wavelengths, yellow