Transcript Light and Inclusion

How do we see
the candle?
Think about your
ideas.
Themes of lecture
1. Contexts to support inclusion
2. Multi-cultural or Anti-racist?
3. Differentiation/personalising
learning
4. Your subject knowledge of
Light
Contexts?
Festivals and celebrations:
Divali, Eid, Hanukkah, Ramadan,
Christmas, Wesak, Santa Lucia
Bonfire night, Birthdays
Local history – coal mining
The Victorians
Do children have experiences of
darkness?
moon
Big Pit
“After school in the
afternoon I go to the
well again with my
friends, to fetch water,
… After that I light a
fire in the house so
that I can see to read
my book...”
Fati, Mali
(source: Oxfam)
Where is the
most light?
Why is this?,
Is it a good
thing to make
so much
light?
Source: NASA Earth at night
How do we respond to
the ideas we elicit?
How do we personalise
learning in science ?
The next 6 slides I used were based on children’s
drawings showing their ideas about shadows and
how teaching responded to these.
Now published in Howe et al (2005, 2009) Edition
Science 5-11 A Guide for teachers. London David
Fulton.
I do not have permission to reproduce them here.
Differentiation/personalisation
strategies
•Literacy demand (children’s recording)
•Numeracy demand
•Conceptual demand of a task
•Science processes demanded of a task
•Degree of independence expected
•Distribution of teacher/adult time
•Grouping of children: collaborative,
individual, pair, ‘attainment’
Hillfields Primary School,
Bristol
CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT
• Shadows and silhouettes
• dance
• Projection – texture, colour, mixed
sources
• Supported Bilingual Children
Differentiation/personalisation
strategies continued
• Context – relevance to children
• Use of language, vocabulary – ‘tuning in’ to
children and staying on the same wavelength
• Finding alternative ways of developing and
sharing meaning e.g. bodily kinaesthetic
Light Travels in straight lines
What is Light?
A wave?
A stream of particles (photons)?
Wave-particle duality
When light meets a material
– it might:
• Go through
(and sometimes bend)
• Bounce off - reflect
(Evenly, or be dispersed)
• Be absorbed
(fully, or partially)
Using a datalogger to measure
reflected light
x-rays, gamma rays
Microwaves, radiowaves
Colour of objects
We see
a blue
box
Other colours
absorbed
We see a
black
box
all colours
absorbed
Ideas about
how we see
things
Euclid
Parallels with
Greek and Arab Plato
thinkers
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=Zug25gntb
vc&feature=related
Al hazen