You will need: Topic Y3 Science Strand - Light
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/ You will need to collect… /We will provide…
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/ Book about dark, e.g. Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson, ISBN: 9780749748937, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson, ISBN: 9781405271974 or The Dark by Lemony Snicket, ISBN: 9781408330036. Blindfold. Shoe box (or similar), black paint/paper, glue, scissors, card, piece of translucent material, torch, small objects, including at least two similar ones of different colours. Access to internet/ Dark Box instructions
Dark Box challenge
The Dark (2 poems)
B / A selection of shiny & dull objects or materials. Reflective/fluorescent strips and a fluorescent safety jacket or cyclist’s jacket. Torch. Access to internet
/ Shining Things (poem)
Wee Willie Winkie (nursery rhyme)
C / Piece of obsidian if available. Mirrors. Torches. A5 sheets of paper with a perpendicular line draw half way along the long side. Access to internet
/ Human faces
Lines of Symmetry activities
D / Examples of Braille (actual books if available or create some words yourself using a blunt tapestry needle to ‘emboss’ the dots on paper). Thick black felt tip pens or similar. A range of different sunhats. Access to internet
/ Sun images
Facts about the Sun
Braille in use
Braille alphabet
Braille sentence template
E / Torches &/or desk lamps. (Rounders post & base, chalk if appropriate). Sticks, Plasticine, torches, card, scissors, rulers, compass, protractors, flat pieces of wood or thick card, glue or sticky tape. Access to internet
/ History of sundials
Images of sundials
How a sundial works
Making sundials (2 methods – one including template)
F / Sets of a range of transparent, translucent and opaque materials, angle poise lamps or similar.Thin card, scissors, coloured acetate papers.Tracing paper, tissue paper or similar translucent paper. Dowelling, split pins, masking tape (or Sellotape). Cardboard box of relevant size, old sheet. Access to internet
/ Sort the Objects tables
Javanese Shadow Puppet + outline
Shadows formed by puppets
Stained Glass Windows instructions
Simple Shadow Puppet Theatre instructions
G / Torches &/or desk lamps. Opaque objects for casting shadows. Tape measures or rulers. Access to internet
/ Cloze sentences about shadows
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