Kids Science Activities
Light and its vocabulary
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- Show the kids, the light and dark, day and night and the light sources such as stars, moon in the dark sky.
- Make them realize the wonders of this universe. Even most adults do not know to enjoy the wonders of nature.
- Your kids are open minded and will enjoy the wonders of the nature if exposed properly.
- Now you can introduce the properties of object with respect to light.
- Transparent objects - will let light to pass through fully. Example glasses.
- Translucent objects - will light part of the light to pass through. Any coloured pet bottle will be a good example.
- opaque objects - will not allow light to pass through. Your house door may be said for an example. Ask the child to give one example of such object.
- Reflect or reflection - the light will bouce back.
- ray of light - it is a straight line of light.
- prism - a 5 sided specially shaped object which will be used to seperate a composite light.
- shiny or glossy surface - light gets reflected more.
- dull or matte - light gets reflected less.
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What is learnt
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- Gets introduced to new light properties vocabulary.
- Will have some idea about the different properties of light.
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Comments on this article |
Jana, mangalore | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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keep going kidzpark |
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Parimala, Chennai | Saturday, January 02, 2010 |
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very good |
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