Light - Dispersion - Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Dominoes Game

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on, white light, dispersion and colour filters for middle school plus an enjoyable yet challenging dominoes game with questions and statements on white light, dispersion and colour filters instead of numbers.

The teaching pack contains thirteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built into the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made.

The game is closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning. It is enjoyable and suitable for all abilities in that it can be played by simply matching the pictures but presents a challenge for those who are able to match a picture with another which means the same.

What’s Covered

• The order of the seven colours of the spectrum
• Dispersion is the separation of white light into the seven different colors of the spectrum.
• During dispersion, red light is refracted the least and violet light the most.
• Dispersion is caused by the fact that each colour of light travels at a different speed in glass.
• Red, green and blue are primary light colors.
• Magenta, cyan and yellow are secondary light colors.
• Mixing two primary light colours gives a secondary light color.
• Mixing the three primary light colors gives white light.
• An object only reflects light the same color as itself and absorbs all the others
• Work out the color an object appears in different light color

Lesson
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut and stick activity (x2)
Pinhole camera template
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (x3)
Fact sheet (x3)
Homework plus answers
Fact share worksheet
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Game

• 80 dominos
• Animated PowerPoint explaining the rules and how to play.

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