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Light in Straight Lines

L-1 Light - Travel in Straight Lines: Three cards and a flashlight are used to prove that light travels in straight lines.
Science Process Skills: Observing, Communicating, *Classifying, Co-operating, Measuring, Inferring, Predicting, Interpreting, Controlling Variables.
* This process skill applicable to Level 1 only.

L-2 Refraction: A pie plate, water, and a penny are used to prove that light refracts when it passes from water into air, at an angle.
Science Process Skills: Observing, Communicating, *Classifying, Co-operating, Inferring, Predicting, Interpreting, Controlling Variables.
* This process skill applicable to Level 1 only.

Refracted Light

Light and Colour

L-3 Light and Colour: A beam of white sunlight is split into its component colours using a small mirror and a bowl of water.
Science Process Skills: Observing, Communicating, Co-operating, Measuring, Inferring, Predicting, Interpreting, Controlling Variables.

 
Science Process Skills applicable to each Learning Lab depend on the way the educator presents the experiment.


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