Inquiry Project

Light and Shadows

Essential Question: 

What is Light and it's properties?

Subsidiary Questions:

1) How does light affect our every day life?

2) How does dark affect our every day life?

Your Task: 

Choose one of the subsidiary questions and generate 2-4 “Telling Questions”

Portray learned information in 2 of 3 ways. At least one of these ways must use some sort of technology (ie. Digital camera, a presentation website, etc. )

1)    visually (ie. Photography, painting, sculpture, etc.)

2)    orally (ie. Song, play, interview, etc.)

3)    textually (ie. Poem, report, storybook, etc.)

The chosen techniques must relate to each other. For example: If you choose to portray your learned information about how transparent and translucent materials affect light by making a sculpture, and writing a report, they should both present the same information.

Websites to use for research:

-       http://colour.australianmuseum.net.au/

-       http://www.howstuffworks.com/light.htm

-       http://library.thinkquest.org/28160/english/index.html

-       http://www.physics4kids.com/files/light_intro.html

-       http://photo.net/making-photographs/light

-       http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/light.html

-       http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdnewt.htm

-       http://www.ehow.com/way_5447681_childrens-science-projects-light.html

-   http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/op/Optics