The child should be enabled to:
- learn that light is a form of energy
- recognise that light comes from different natural and artificial sources
- investigate that light can be broken up into many different colours
- use a prism to create spectrum
- investigate the relationships between light and materials
- sort materials according to the degree to which they allow light through (i.e. transparent, translucent, opaque)
- explore materials that do not allow light to pass through (opaque) and thus form shadows
- design and make a light shade for bedroom
- investigate how mirrors and other shiny surfaces are good reflectors of light
- effects of flat shiny surface, curved shiny surface
- recognise that the sun gives us heat and light, without which people and animals could not survive
- be aware of the dangers of looking directly at the sun.
Source: SESE Science Curriculum, p. 63