Science 7

Science – Grade 7
Quarter 3 – Self-Learning Module 14: TH COLOR SPECTRUM
First Edition, 2020

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 Science 7
Quarter 3
Self-Learning Module 14
The Color Spectrum of Light
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Science 7 Self-Learning Module 13 on The Color Spectrum of

Light!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Science 7 Self-Learning Module on The Color Spectrum of

Light!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest – This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

This module is designed with activities that will help you understand the color
spectrum of light. In this module, your knowledge, skills and values will be
developed.
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. explain the relationship of wavelength, frequency and wave speed;
2. arrange the different colors of light in terms of wavelength, frequency and wave
speed; and
3. reflect on the limitations of man.

PRETEST

Read each question carefully Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter of
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. The visible light is made up of several colors with different wavelengths and
frequencies. Knowing this, which of the following is true about the speed of
light?
A. Light of different wavelengths travel at the same speed.
B. Light of different wavelengths travels at different speeds.
C. High-frequency light travels faster than the low-frequency light.
D. Low-frequency light travels faster than the high-frequency light.
2. Which of the following explains the relationship between wavelength and
frequency of light ?
A. The shorter the wavelength, the lower the frequency
B. The longer the wavelength, the higher the frequency.
C. The longer the wavelength, the lower the frequency.
D. The wavelength and frequency are not related to each other.
3. How will you arrange the colors of the following fruits according to increasing
frequency?

1 2 3 4
Strawberry Lemon Atis Orange
A. 1243 B. 1423 C. 2324 D. 3241
4. When the velocity of red light is compared to violet light in a vacuum, which
of the following pictures shows the correct concept?
A. C.

B. D.
 5. Certain wavelengths can make other organisms see. Visible light for human
beings, infrared for a snake, and ultraviolet rays for bees. In real life, what
does this tell you?
A. We have our limitations.
B. We all have eye problems.
C. We don’t have imperfections.
D. We are all on the same wavelengths.

RECAP
From the previous module, you have learned that visible light is made up of
seven colors and each color speaks for different temperatures, intensity,
wavelength, and frequency. You have also learned the primary and secondary
colors of light. To refresh your mind on this lesson, perform the activity below:

Direction: Fill in the blank/s with numbers associated to the color that will
complete each of the given statements.

1. White light is the combination of

_____, _____, and ______ which are the
primary colors.
2. _____ light indicates high temperature 1-BLUE
and high intensity.
3. When magenta is added to ____ which 2-CYAN 3-MAGENTA
is its complementary color, white light is
produced. 5-WHITE
4. Among the colors of light, _____ has 4-GREEN
longest wavelength but lowest frequency. 6-YELLOW 7-RED
5. The hottest stars gives off ____ light
while the coolest stars emit red light.

LESSON

One wave cycle In this lesson, you will compare the

B F different colors of light in terms of
wavelength, frequency, and speed. To
understand this better, refer to Figure 1
A C E G I as we define each terminology.
(1 second) Wavelength is the distance between two
identical points. Let’s say you started
D
H with the crest of a wave, its wavelength
is the distance between two successive
Figure 1: Anatomy of a transverse wave crests (B-F) or you could have point A to
E for one wavelength. One wavelength is
one complete wave cycle. The frequency
refers to how often a wave cycle passes
a given point per second. From the
figure, A-E is one wave cycle and E-I is
another. Therefore, there are 2 wave
cycles in a second (2 /s) in this
example. Now, let’s compare the Figure 2: Wavelength VS. Frequency

frequency of waves with different wavelengths in figure 2. Let’s say these are
waves created for a period of 1 second. Every wave cycle is marked with a
line in the figure. The blue wave with shorter wavelength has 6 wave cycles
in a second (6 /s or 6 Hz) while the red wave with longer wavelength has 3
wave cycles in a second (3 Hz). This only shows that the wavelength and
frequency are inversely proportional. This means that waves of shorter
wavelengths have higher frequency while those with longer wavelengths have lower
frequency.
Visible light is a small section of the electromagnetic waves that is visible to
the human beings. It is called visible because it activates our retina the moment
they hit our eyes. The wavelengths longer than the red spectrum of light like the
infrared and that region shorter than the wavelength of the violet spectrum like the
UV light are not visible to us but are visible to other organisms because each
organism has its own visible range. The bees, for example, can see UV light while
the snake can see the infrared or heat rays. And since we are emitting heat rays,
we are very much visible to snakes.
Each color that makes up the visible light has different wavelengths and
frequencies but traveling at the same speed. From the figure on visible spectrum
of light, red light has the longest wavelength while the violet spectrum of
light has the shortest wavelength. The colors ROYGBIV are arranged in
decreasing wavelength but in increasing frequency. But why are they traveling
at the same speed? Any wavelength has its corresponding frequency and any
wavelength multiplied to its corresponding frequency will always give us the speed
of light. Let us analyze this in symbol,

ROY GBIV

V= λf
Longer wavelength X V= λf
Shorter wavelength X
lower frequency higher frequency
Figure 3: Visible Spectrum of Light

How fast is the visible light moving? The speed of light was first calculated by a
Danish astronomer, named, Ole Roemer according to the American Museum of
Natural History. After his calculation, numerous scientists worked to determine the
speed of light using improved techniques and today we are using the value of
299,792, 458 m/s, or approximately 300,000,000 m/s which was adopted at the
General conference of weights and measures in 1983. This the constant speed of all
the wavelengths of light in a vacuum.
 ACTIVITIES
To deepen your understanding of the lessons and to discover new concepts,
perform the following activities.
Activity No.1: WHEN YOU GET SHORTER, I GET HIGHER!

Learning Competency: Relate the characteristics of light such as color and

intensity to frequency and wavelength. S7FE-IIIF-10
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship of wavelength, frequency and wave
speed. S7FE-IIIF-10.3

A B C

D E

Direction: Identify the wave/s described in each number by writing the letter that
corresponds to the correct answer.

1. Wave with the longest wavelength: ______

2. Wave with the highest frequency : ______ Note:
3. Wave with longer wavelength than Wave C : _____ Consider one up-
4. Wave with the shortest wavelength : _____ down movement
as one wave cycle.
5. Wave with the lowest frequency: _____
6. Wave/s with shorter wavelength than Wave A : _____
7. Wave with the most number of wave cycles : ______
8. Wave with more wave cycles than E but less than that of A: _____
9. Arrange the waves from shortest to longest wavelength :
_______________________________________________________
10. Arrange the waves according to increasing frequency:
________________________________________________________
CLOSURE:
The Visible light is made up of colors with different wavelengths. The colors
with longer wavelength has (1)_____ (higher, lower) frequency while those at shorter
wavelength has (2) ________ (higher, lower) frequency. But all the colors of light are
travelling at the (3)____ (different, same) velocity. This is why they blend and result
in white light.
Activity No.2 : THE ORDER OF COLORS!

Learning competency: Relate the characteristics of light such as color and intensity
to wavelength and frequency.S7FE-IIIF-10

Learning objective: Compare the different colors of light in terms of wavelength,

frequency, and speed. S7FE-IIIF-10.3

Directions: Arrange the color and frequency based on the information given in the
first three columns. Write the letter and Roman numeral number associated with
your answer in the 4th column.
WAVE ILLUSTRATION VELOCI ANSWER COLOR FREQUENCY
LENGTH TY
I.480-510
1. 400 – 3x108 ___ , ___ A.Orange THz
450 nm m/s
2. 450 - 3x108 II.540-
490 nm m/s ___ , ___ B. Blue 580THz

3. 490 - 3x108 III.430-480

520 nm m/s ___ , ___ C. Red THz

4. 520 - 3x108 IV.610 -

560 nm m/s ___ , ___ D. Yellow 670THz

5. 560 - 3x108 V.580-

590 nm m/s ___ , ___ E. Indigo 610THz

6. 590 - 3x108 VI.510-540

635 nm m/s ___ , ___ F. Violet THz

7.635 - 3x108 VII.670-

700 nm m/s ___ , ___ G. Green 730THz

CLOSURE:

DID YOU KNOW WHY DANGER SIGNS ARE IN RED COLORS?

Since the red light has the longest wavelength among all the colors, it is
least scattered by the small atmospheric particles. It can easily pass through fog,
dust, smoke without being scattered. Thus, it is visible over a long distance making
it the right color to give danger signs. Remember that small air particles scatter
light with short wavelength and not those at longer wavelength.
Write at least 2 danger signs in red color:

Ambulance siren _______________ _______________

 WRAP-UP

Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters to identify the characteristics of a light wave
described by each of the given statements. Write your answer in a separate sheet of
paper.

_______________ 1. It refers to the distance between two identical points like crest to
LENWAGTHVE another crest.

________________ 2. It tells how many wave cycles passes a given point per second.

CYFRENQUE
________________ 3. The visible light is made up of colors with different wavelengths
EOIVLCTY and frequencies but same _________.

________________ 4. The longer the wavelength, the ________ the frequency

OWELR of light.

________________5.When the wavelength gets _______, the frequency gets higher.

RETSHRO

_______________ 6. It is the visible spectrum of light with the shortest wavelength and
LETVOI highest frequency.

________________7. It is the color of light with the longest wavelength and lowest
DER frequency.
_______________8. The color of light with a shorter wavelength than the yellow light

EENGR but with a longer wavelength than the indigo.

_______________ 9. Arrangement of the colors of light in increasing frequency

RVOYGBI

______________10. Arrangement of the colors of light from the one with shortest

RVOYGBI wavelength to the longest wavelength.

 VALUING

To deeply appreciate the importance the lesson, answer this activity and
make a self-reflection.

Activity No.3: THE VISIBLE LIGHT HAS ITS LIMIT AND SO DO I!

Learning competency: Relate the characteristics of light such as color and

intensity to wavelength and frequency S7FE-IIIF-10

Learning Objective: To reflect on the limitations of man.

Directions: Analyze the figure below then answer the questions that follow.

R O Y G B I V

INFRARED VISIBLE LIGHT ULTRAVIOLET

10000 nm 700 nm 380 280 nm 100 nm

WAVELENGTH

1. What are the colors under the visible spectrum of light?

__________________________________________________________________
2. What is the region before the red spectrum of light? _______________
3. What is the region beyond the violet spectrum of light? ____________
4. Based on the illustration, how will you compare the wavelength of
infrared to red spectrum of light? _________________________________
5. What is the wavelength of ultraviolet compared to violet spectrum?
_________________________________________________________________
CLOSURE:
Did you know that human beings cannot see waves longer than red light
like the infrared and beyond the violet which is ultraviolet? Similarly, we
are not superhumans that are able to do anything, we have also our
limits.
SELF-REFLECTION:
What is your personal interpretation to this quote?
Write your thoughts in the box below:
 POSTTEST
Directions: Read each statement carefully then write the letter of your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following correctly describes the relationship of wavelength and

frequency?

A. The longer the wavelength, the lower the frequency.

B. The longer the wavelength, the higher the frequency.
C. The shorter the wavelength, the lower the frequency.
D. The amount of wavelength and frequency depends on the wave speed.

2. If one complete wave cycle refers to wavelength, what is the number of wave
cycles in a given time?
A. Amplitude C. Frequency
B. Crest D. Wavelength

3. Which of the following pictures shows the correct velocity of red light when
compared to a blue light?
A. C.

B. D.

2. Light is made up of colors with different wavelengths. Which of the following

sequence of colors is matched with the sequence of wavelengths below?

1 2 3 4
A. Red-Violet-Green-Yellow C. Violet-Green-Yellow-Red
B. Red-Yellow-Green-Violet D. Yellow-Green-Violet-Red
3. We can’t see waves beyond the visible light. Similarly, we can’t do things
outside our physical and mental capacity because we are orchestrated
within a certain range. What does this tell you?
A. Human being has limitations.
B. Color is in the eyes of the beholder.
C. You and me are of the same wavelength.
D. Be affected on situations outside your control.
 References
Online Sources
Google Chrome, howtopaintanddraw.com, http://howtopaintanddraw.com/color-
theory-lesson-the-three-primaries/

Google Chrome, University of Bergen, https://www.uib.no/en/hms-

portalen/75292/electromagnetic-spectrum

Google Chrome, The Blue Light,

https://www.bluelightblockingglasses.com.au/what-is-blue-light/

Google Chrome, StackExchange,

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/459958/how-does-color-work

Google Chrome, Youtube .com,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEC8LQrmGA

Jones, Andrew Zimmerman. "What Is the Visible Light Spectrum?" ThoughtCo,

Aug. 28, 2020, thoughtco.com/the-visible-light-spectrum-2699036

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