To develop understanding of light and dark we put up a dark tent in class. The children were able to experience near total darkness and then discuss how it made them feel.
Together we then made a list of different sources of light and drew and labelled them. We even looked at old sources of light used in the past such as oil lamps.
Then we planned a shoe box investigation. We cut a hole into the side of a shoe box and predicted whether we would see the object inside better with the lid on the box, lid half on the box or with the lid off the box. We then carried out the investigation and recorded what we found with words and pictures.
