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Title:

Light

URL:

https://www.readworks.org/article/Light/47163b5a-415e-417d-aa1e-d16f90071f66#!articleTab:content/

Content Source:

Other
ReadWorks.org

Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity can be used as an introduction to transparent, translucent, opaque, and reflective materials, serve as reinforcement after students have already learned these concepts, or be used as an assessment at the conclusion of a lesson. This informational text could provide background knowledge before students investigate materials that are transparent, translucent, opaque, or reflective.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 1

3 ) Investigate materials to determine which types allow light to pass through (e.g., transparent materials such as clear plastic wrap), allow only partial light to pass through (e.g., translucent materials such as wax paper), block light (e.g., opaque materials such as construction paper), or reflect light (e.g., shiny materials such as aluminum foil).

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
P4.2: Objects vary in the extent to which they absorb and reflect light and conduct heat (thermal energy) and electricity.

NAEP Statement::
P4.9: Light travels in straight lines. When light strikes substances and objects through which it cannot pass, shadows result. When light travels obliquely from one substance to another (air and water), it changes direction.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Planning and Carrying out Investigations

Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect

Disciplinary Core Idea: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Given materials, determine if light passes through, partially passes through, is blocked or is reflected.

Teacher Vocabulary:

transparent
translucent
opaque
reflect
investigate
observe
light
partial
block
material
record
data
shiny

Knowledge:

Students know:

Some materials allow all light to pass through.
Some materials allow partial light to pass through.
Some materials block all the light from passing through.
Some materials reflect light, which changes its direction.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Investigate to determine the effect of placing objects made of different materials in a beam of light.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Simple tests can gather evidence to determine that placing different materials in a beam of light will cause light to either: pass through, partially pass through, block, or reflect.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Sound and Light, Foss
Sky, Delta

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.1.3- Identify objects that are see through (transparent) and objects that are not see through (opaque).

English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1

22. Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.

Unpacked Content

Teacher Vocabulary:

22.

Ask
Answer
Questions
Key details
Literary texts
Informational texts

Knowledge:

22. Students know:

Key details are present in literary and informational text.

Skills:

22. Students are able to:

Ask questions about key details in a literary and informational text.
Answer questions about key details in a literary and informational text.

Understanding:

22. Students understand that:

Literary and informational text include key details that must be understood to comprehend the text.
After reading a text, knowledge and understanding can be expanded by asking and answering questions.

Tags:

informational text, light, materials, opaque, reflect, translucent, transparent

License Type:

Custom Permission Type
See Terms: https://about.readworks.org/terms-of-use.html
For full descriptions of license types and a guide to usage, visit :
https://creativecommons.org/licenses

Accessibility

Audio resources: includes a transcript or subtitles

Comments

ReadWorks is a website that provides K-12 teachers with free literacy resources (About ReadWorks). ReadWorks has literary and informational texts on a variety of subjects and reading skills. You may narrow your search using grade level or Lexile level, making this website a wonderful tool for differentiation. Students will complete their work digitally, and you will provide their score and feedback digitally. This makes it easy to go paperless for this activity.

Prior to implementing this activity, you will need to sign up for an Educator Account on ReadWorks. After setting up an account, create a class from the Class Admin tab, this will provide you with a Class Code to give to students. Next, use the Find Content tab to search for the informational article that will be used during this activity, "Light." After navigating to the article, click on the blue Assign button to assign it to your class.

Each student will need access to a digital device, such as a tablet or laptop. The first time students enter the website they will need to enter the Class Code that is listed on your Class Admin page. Alternatively, you can print the article and corresponding questions for students, if digital devices are not available. The teacher could also complete this activity by projecting the article and questions for the whole class to view.

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Author:

Hannah Bradley

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