Light Show
Part of the series Science Tube, from the Teachers TV video archive.
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Summary
Take an in-depth look at the properties of light with a video for use with Key Stage 2 science classes.
Through time-lapse film and animation from space, The Day and Night Show highlights the differences in the 24-hour cycle.
Cinema Trip explores light sources, revealing to primary pupils how light can travel through some materials but not others.
Inside an Eye goes into the lab to observe an animal's eye being taken apart to find out how it works.
Trick of the Light looks back at how the Victorians used mirrors and lenses to set up the camera obscura - a giant camera.
Seeing the Light goes into the lab to explain reflection, using mirrors, torches and lasers to demonstrate how light travels in a straight line.
Related links (6)
howstuffworks: How Vision Works
A comprehensive explanation of how vision works including the anatomy of the eye and what muscles control its movement
BBC: Schools Science Clips ? Earth, Sun and Moon
An interactive website for children and teachers showing all aspects of light including how the earth moves around the sun, giving day and night
The Standards Site: How We See Light
A teaching unit linked with the Science National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2
howstuffworks: How Light Works
A good explanation about how light works and how it travels
Willett & Patteson's Amazing Camera Obscura
Website of a company that recreates the pinhole camera obscura that marvelled and amazed past generations
howstuffworks: How Movie Projectors Work
Explanation of how a cinema projector works, detailing how the film is threaded and passes by a bright light source
- Duration: 15 mins
- No Subtitles
- Published: 18 September 2006


