I hope everyone had an enjoyable winter holiday. The grade 2 students were happy to be back at school with their friends this week and we continued right from where we left off with in our unit on sound and light.
To finish off the first part of our inquiry into sound, the students worked on creating and copying rhythms as the expressed themselves in the classroom, playground and kitchen.
Then we flipped the switch and began our inquiry on light and started learning about the properties of light by completing four experiments.
We learned that light is a type of energy and the it can pass through materials that are transparent and translucent, but blocked by those which are opaque. The experiments also helped us discover that white light contains all the colours of the rainbow as we played around with some prisms, as well as some polarized sunglasses, and redirected light with lenses from magnifying lenses and refracted light as it passed from air to water. Next week, we will continue to experiment with light and colours some more!
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