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Physics Light Lesson Plan PDF

The Light and Color Lesson Plan introduces students to the concepts of light and color through demonstrations and hands-on activities. It begins with an introduction about sources of light and what light is. Students then learn that all light travels at the extremely fast speed of light through a spinning demonstration. The lesson continues with explaining that each color corresponds to a different wavelength and having students observe colors using diffraction glasses. White light is demonstrated to be composed of all colors by splitting light with a prism and combining primary colors. Finally, students create color wheels to illustrate how spinning the primary colors creates white light.

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Physics Light Lesson Plan PDF

The Light and Color Lesson Plan introduces students to the concepts of light and color through demonstrations and hands-on activities. It begins with an introduction about sources of light and what light is. Students then learn that all light travels at the extremely fast speed of light through a spinning demonstration. The lesson continues with explaining that each color corresponds to a different wavelength and having students observe colors using diffraction glasses. White light is demonstrated to be composed of all colors by splitting light with a prism and combining primary colors. Finally, students create color wheels to illustrate how spinning the primary colors creates white light.

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Webber Science Outreach Program

Light and Color Lesson Plan

Physics
*note- do after waves lesson*
- Introduction (~3 minutes)
• What are some sources of light you can think of?
• What is light? What do you think light is?
- Speed of Light (~7 minutes)
• How fast do you think light travels?? All light travels at the same speed, VERY
FAST!

• Demo: have a students try and spin in a circle before the light hits a wall when you
turn on a flashlight!

• Nothing can move faster than the speed of light, if you could run at the speed of
light, you could run around the Earth 150 times in just 3 seconds!

• It would take an airplane 260 days to travel the Earth 150 times!
- Colors and Wavelength (~5 minutes)
• Each color of light corresponds to a certain wavelength! Handout to go with this!
• Activity: Pass out diffraction glasses (if available) and ask students to describe what
they see when they look at different light sources (windows, ceiling lights, etc.)
- White Light (~10 minutes)
• White light is actually made up of all the colors in the rainbow!
• Demo 1: show prism splitting apart white light (flashlight) into all the different colors
• Demo 2: overlap red, blue, and green flashlights to create white light
• Demo 3 (optional): overlap red, blue, and green on an overhead projector to show
that you get black (because this is actually showing pigment, not the color of light!)
This is similar to mixing paint together.

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Webber Science Outreach Program
- Activity: Color Wheels (~25 minutes)
• Use template to create color wheels for students to color in. Color the appropriate
labeled sections.

• Spin wheels on a pencil to show that white light is created!

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