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Teacher: Daniela Subject: The Way We See Things Year 5 Term 1 Week 6

This document outlines a science unit for Year 5 students about transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. Over two weeks, students will explore how different materials interact with light by investigating their properties, classifying sample materials, answering questions, and conducting investigations on shadow casting. The objectives are for students to understand how materials can block or transmit light and to link a material's properties to its ability to form shadows. Hands-on activities include sorting materials and designing sunshades.

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Teacher: Daniela Subject: The Way We See Things Year 5 Term 1 Week 6

This document outlines a science unit for Year 5 students about transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. Over two weeks, students will explore how different materials interact with light by investigating their properties, classifying sample materials, answering questions, and conducting investigations on shadow casting. The objectives are for students to understand how materials can block or transmit light and to link a material's properties to its ability to form shadows. Hands-on activities include sorting materials and designing sunshades.

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Teacher: Daniela

Subject: The way we see things Year 5


Term 1 Week 6
Week Objectives Main activity Differen Home
Resour vocabulary tia -ting work
ces levels.
Week 6 To explore how Low :
beginning transparent materials - to write
23/10/2016- let a lot of light through some of the
27/10/2016 and opaque materials do given tasks
not let light through with teacher's
Lesson assistance
1 &2 To explore how Homework
transparent materials Medium : page 17
Oxford let a lot of light through - Students (Science
Internation and opaque materials do will write all booklet)
al Primary not let light through given tasks
Science with little
120-125 assistance
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Booklet High :
16-17 - students to
write all
given tasks
with little
assistance

VOCABULARY:
blocked, light intensity,
length, position,
silhouette, light source,
object, opaque,
transparent, solid, The big idea Some substances let light through and other
translucent, conclusion, substances block the light.
design, evidence, factor,
fair test, interpret, The key teaching points for students in this unit are to:
measurements, observe,
plan, predict, results, -understand that some substances let light through and
variable. other substances block light

-define opaque, translucent and transparent materials

-investigate the properties of materials to classify them as


opaque, translucent and transparent

The teacher will write down 2 properties of light, list


three opaque and transparent objects, the students will
identify them in given pictures.

The students will answer the following questions: why is it


important that some materials are opaque, what can the
person see through the translucent material, do
transparent materials block the light, why is it important
that not all of the materials we use are opaque.

Investigation: the aim of investigation is to explore which


materials are opaque, transparent or translucent. Students
will work in small groups and sort translucent, opaque and
transparent materials.

The big idea We can link the property of a material with


how good it is at making shadows.

The key teaching points for students in this unit are to :


- Recognise that the property of a material
determines how good it is at making shadows
- Describe the shadows made by opaque and
translucent materials
- Understand that the use of a material is related to
its properties

The teacher will ask the questions: Where have you seen a
shadow like this before, which part of the window makes
the best shadow, why does the glass not make a good
shadow. The students will investigate which materials will
cast shadows; they will need a selection of opaque,
translucent and transparent objects, a light source, a
screen or a white wall. The aim of this investigation is to
test which materials cast shadows. The students will
investigate sunshades; they will need a light source, a
selection of materials, such as paper, cardboard, clears
plastic files, aluminium foil, metal plate, a wooden board
and a plastic sheet. The aim of the investigation is to allow
students to apply their knowledge of materials and the
shadows they cast by designing a sunshade.

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