Lesson

Title/Focus

The Components and Abilities of Light

Subject/Gra
de Level

Grade 4 Science

Unit

ED2500 Group A Lesson Plan Template

Instructor: B: Gammie
Monday, March 16th
Date
2015
Time
Duratio 15 Minutes
n
Teache
Miss. Groger
r

LIGHT AND SHADOWS

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

Identify sources of light and describe the interaction of light with different
materials and infer the pathway of a light beam.
10. Recognize that light can be bent (refracted) and that such objects as aquaria,
prisms, and lenses can be used to show that light beams can be bent.
11. Recognize that light can be broken into colours and that different colours of
light can be combined to form a new colour.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

What do you want your students to learn?

Students will:
1. Identify the varying components of light (ROYGBIV) from white light.
2. Identify that light can be refracted through prisms and water.
3. Realize that light moves slower in water than air, determined through the pencil and arrow
experiments.

ASSESSMENTS
Formative / Summative

How will you know your students have learned?

Formative - Observation
Summative Worksheets/exit slip
Formative Q&A

LEARNING
RESOURCES CONSULTED
Alberta Program of Studies
http://education.alberta.ca/media/654825/elemsci.pdf
http://www.albertasciencenetwork.ca/programs_resource_lin
ks.html
http://teachinginroom6.blogspot.ca/2012/04/light-refractionfun-independent.html

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT#s

1 pan/dish
1 small carton of milk
5 Q-tips
Dish soap
Blue, yellow and red food colouring
9 prisms
6 flashlights
20 arrow worksheets
20 bending pencil worksheets
18 packages of Skittles
20 exit slips
20 clear plastic cups
Handful of napkins
20 arrow flashcards
24 pencils

PROCEDURE
Introduction
Attention Grabber /
Agenda

Attention grabber
- Wear lab coat and glasses, ask favorite colours,
Agenda:
- Demonstration
- Hand out prisms, students explore this concept
themselves
- Move onto arrow and bending water experiments

Tim
e
1-3

ED2500 Group A Lesson Plan Template

Instructor: B: Gammie
Hand out appropriate worksheets for students to
complete at the appropriate time.
Close with exit slip, hand out Skittles, students
free to go

Body
Learning Activity

Assessment

Demonstration of how white light is composed of

seven different colours, how the primary colours mix
and all the colours of the rainbow emerge from
white light.
Move into prism experiment, hand out prisms and
flashlights, let students try on their own.
Move onto the arrow experiment, have students
complete worksheet.
Move forward and have students perform pencil
experiment, have them complete the worksheet.
Answer/ask questions, move into close.
Closure

Assessment of
Learning /
Next Class

Today we learned that light is made up of several

colours, not just white, and that light can actually be
bent through different mediums such as water and
prisms.
We learned that light moves slower in water than air,
and that is why the pencil looks bent and the arrow
changed direction.
Next class we will expand our knowledge of light and
utilize what we know to actually handling optic
devices and understanding how light works in a
microscope for example.
Hand out Skittles for students to taste the rainbow

Tim
e

7-11

Tim
e

3-5