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Misconceptions related to Light, Heat, and Sun from Issue 7 (October 2008) of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Assessement Probes, Volume 1
Contains the formative assessment probe, “Darkness at Night.”
NSTA Assessment Probes Vol 3
Lesson from Teach Engineering: In this lesson, students in grades 3-5 learn the five words that describe how light interacts with
objects: "transparent," "translucent," "opaque," "reflection" and "refraction."
Lesson from Teach Engineering: In this activity, students examine various materials and investigate how they interact with light. Students use five new vocabulary words (translucent, transparent, opaque, reflection and refraction) to describe how light interacts with the objects.
Lesson from Science NetLinks for grades K-2:
To help students broaden their understanding of the sun, particularly its critical role in warming the land, air, and water around us.
Watts on Your Mind: Students in grades K-2 learn to use thermometers to measure temperature. Pair with The Warmth
of the Sun.
Students in grades K-5 learn about the sun and create solar ovens to cook s’mores.
Students in grades K-2 place ice cubes on different colors of construction paper, set them in the
sun, and see which ice cubes melt fastest.
Students in grades 3-5 investigate how different surfaces (light and dark colored soil, water)
absorb heat.
Question and Answer Books: Students gather information from nonfiction text and the Internet; organize with KWL charts,
and create a book.
This free article from the NSTA journal Science and Children describes science lessons that incorporate trade books for students in grades K-3 and 4-6, including Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights.
Students explore how color affects the ability of a material to reflect light and absorb heat. They
will explain how less sea ice (and more dark ocean water) in the Arctic could raise Arctic and
global temperatures.
Blog posting for web seminar from the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine. More information on resources mentioned on the web seminar are included.
Archive and powerpoint presentation available for download from the NSTA Learning Center
Issue 7 (October 2008) Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Ice Albedo: Bright White Reflects Light--NASA movie
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List of resources from the NSDL Web Seminar, Energy and the Polar Environment. Archived on November 13, 2008. Resources from Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears in partnership with the National Science Digital Library
Updated on 2008-11-11
Created on 2008-11-11
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