8J – Light (Lighting Technician)

Big Ideas – Energy, Waves and Magnets

Skills development – Planning, Tables & Graphs and Conclusions
Complete Date

8Ja – Light on the Move

1. Describe how light travels, including its speed.
2. Correctly use the terms: reflect, scatter, transmit, absorb, opaque,
translucent, transparent.
3. Describe how we see objects that are not sources of light.
4. Use a ray diagram to show how an image is formed by a pinhole camera.
5. Describe a light wave as a transverse wave.
6. Compare light and sound waves.

8Jb - Reflection
7. State the law of reflection.
8. Construct a ray diagram to show how light is reflected by a plane mirror
and describe the image formed.
9. Compare how light is reflected from rough and smooth surfaces
(specular and diffuse reflection).

8Jc - Refraction
10. Construct ray diagrams to describe the refraction of light as it passes into
and out of different materials.
11. Explain why refraction occurs.

8Jd – Cameras and Eyes

12. Recall the visible spectrum of light and identify primary colours of light.
13. Describe how secondary colours or white light can be made from
primary colours of light.
14. Identify the parts of the eye (including rods and cones) and state their
functions.
15. Describe how light is focused on the retina.
16. Explain how a convex (converging) lens focuses light.
17. Describe how our eyes detect different colours.
18. Describe similarities and differences between cameras and eyes.

8Je - Colour
19. Describe how to split light into different colours using a prism and
correctly use the terms: dispersion, spectrum.
20. Explain why coloured objects appear coloured.
21. Explain how filters can be used to make coloured light and explain their
effects.

By the end of this unit, you should be able to:

All Hallows Science Department

Topic name: 8J Light (Year 8).

The key vocabulary for this topic can be found below:

Key Word Definition

Opaque A material that does not let light in.
A material that light can travel
Transparent
through.
A material that lets light through but
Translucent
scatters it.

Plane mirror A smooth, flat mirror.

A curved piece of glass that can

Lens
change the direction of light.
Light is reflected evenly in the same
Specular reflection
direction e.g. from mirrors.
The change in direction when light
Refraction goes from one transparent material
to another.
The back of the yes that changes
Retina energy transferred by light into
nerve impulses.
A block of clear colourless glass or
Prism
plastic. Usually triangular.
 All Hallows – Disciplinary Knowledge of Science
Year 8
Unit 8J - Light
Enquiry
1. Analyse
Process
Angle of Incidence and Reflection Teacher
Task: SoW Task Pupils will investigate reflection using plane mirrors
– measuring the angles of incidence and reflection
Grade
Marking  Analyse patterns by
Criteria comparing and describing
data.
 Discuss the limitations of
4 Mastery experimental data.
 Draw conclusions from the
results of experiments.
 Present data in an
appropriate table.
 Independently carry out the
practical accurately.
 Discuss limitations of the
3 Secure
experimental data.
 Present the data in an
appropriate table.
 Analyse the data produced
and link the angle of
incidence to the angle of
2 Developing
reflection.
 Produce a conclusion for the
practical.
1 Emerging  Draw ray diagrams showing
 the angle of incidence and
angle of reflection
 Measure the angles
produced.