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Light waves
Teacher : Jithu
 WHAT IS LIGHT?
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 Topic: Light waves
Curriculum Reference: Light waves

Learning Objective: To explain the transmission of light

through different materials.
Success Criteria:
● Recall the properties of light wave.
● Compare sound waves and light waves.
● Describe what happens to light when it hits different surfaces
● Explain how light travels through transparent, translucent, and opaque materials.

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 Key Vocabulary
luminous
transparent
translucent
opaque
reflection

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 Teach and model/Investigation

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 Properties of Light
❖ Light is a transverse wave.
❖ Light travels in a straight lines.
❖ Light travels very fast with a maximum speed of approximately 300,000,000
m/s.
❖ Light waves can travel through a vacuum (empty space). They do not require
a medium to travel through.

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 Lightning vs Thunder

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 What happens when light falls on
different objects?

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 Transparent, Translucent, and Opaque

Transparent: Objects that allow

light to pass completely through
them

Translucent: Objects that allow

light to pass partially through them

Opaque: Objects that does not

allow passage of light
How do we see things?

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 Activity
In group discuss and find how we see things?

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 We see luminous objects as they emit
light. The light falls in our eyes and we
see them. But not all objects are
luminous.

We see non-luminous objects because

light is reflected off them and enters our
eyes after being redirected from the
object. We therefore see the light that
has been reflected but not the light that
has been absorbed.

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 Luminous and non-luminous
An object that gives out light is described as luminous. How does light from a
luminous object such as a light bulb reach the eye?

Light travels in a straight

line directly into the eye.

An object that does not give out light is non-luminous. How does your
eye see a non-luminous object such as a comb?

Light hits the comb and

some of it is reflected into the
eye.
Absorption, Transmission, and Reflection
• Light may be absorbed, transmitted or reflected.
• Transparent materials let light pass straight through. We say they transmit
light.
• Opaque surfaces can absorb or reflect light.
• White surfaces reflect most of the light that hits them. Black surfaces
absorb light very well and reflect very little. This is why they look so dark.

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 Mid- plenary (Key questions)

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Learning objective: To explain the transmission of light through
different materials.
Assessment Criteria including WAGOLL Exemplars
Starting Approaching Meeting Exceeding
● Recall the properties ● Recall the properties of ● Recall the properties of ● Recall the properties of
of light wave. light wave. light wave. light wave.
● Compare sound waves ● Compare sound waves ● Compare sound waves
and light waves. and light waves. and light waves.
● Describe what happens ● Describe what happens to
to light when it hits light when it hits different
different surfaces surfaces
● Explain how light travels
through transparent,
translucent, and opaque
materials.

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 Plenary
Give some real life examples for transparent, translucent and opaque
materials

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 Challenge task
what is reflection and how does it help us to see?

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