Introduction

Elementary class students are more curious than their elder siblings mostly because
they lack inhibitions. Their mind is full of questions and they are very much
interested in class room experiments which give answers to natural phenomenon.
These light lesson plans are full of interesting activities to satisfy young minds.

Objective:

Visible light is not monochromatic but it is composed of seven colors which splits up
to component colors when sunlight is incident on transparent objects like prism. Sir
Isaac Newton showed this fact for the first time with the help of a disc called
Newton’s Disc in which the seven colors of the visible white light is arranged.

Activity for Light Lesson Plans

Materials:

Light source

Prisms

White cardboard sheet

Spectrometer

Procedure: Begin your class by asking students about the color of visible light.
Instruct them to watch the following activity and arrive at a conclusion of their own.

• Arrange the prism in a table and place the white board in the opposite side of
the prism. Keep the room completely dark. Allow light from a source to fell on
the prism and properly set the white board so that the seven colors are visible
in the board. But the colors will not be distinctively separated. So teachers can
make use of spectrometer.
• Introduce a spectrometer and show the parts like prism table, telescope and
collimator. Now place the prism in the prism table and level it so that seven
distinct colors are visible through the telescope. Let each student to watch the
spectrum through the telescope.
• Now place another prism near the first one in such a way that their refracting
angles are in opposite direction so that, the dispersion produced by one prism
is nullified by the other and white light is visible through the telescope.

Activity for Light Lesson Plans

Cardboard sheet Color paper or color pens Gum Scissors Pencil

Battery powered fan Eraser

Procedure

• Take the two prints of the image shown. Divide students into two groups and
as directed in the image, either color each portion with respective colors, or
use color papers. In this image the violet section is more prominent; instead
allow one group of students to make a disco with more violet and another with
 more red portion. Paste the paper in the cardboard sheet and remove the
remaining portion.
• Make a hole in the middle of the cardboard sheet and insert a pencil through
the hole. Make a hole in the eraser so that the pencils pass through it.
• Now fix the eraser in front of the disco so that the disco won’t be detached
from the pencil when students rotate it fast. Teachers can rotate it with hand
but it must be done very fast otherwise, the desired result will not be
obtained. So it is better to use battery powered fan. Remove the blades of the
fan and then fix the disco on the pointed end in the centered of the fan and
switch it on. As the fan rotates the disco, students can observe the white light.

Analysis and conclusion:

From the observation of these activities students will understand that visible light is
not monochromatic but it is a combination of seven colors and they are Violet,
Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red.

Conclusion
These light lesson plans are the best way to introduce children in second grade to
the world of equipments. In order to make light lesson plans more interesting allow
each students to make a Newton’s disc as a home work. Let them bring it in the
next class rotate each of it.

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