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Light and Colour

Levels 3 and 4

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NZC Achievement Objectives
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Te Mātauranga o Aotearoa
  • Force and Motion: Investigate and use scientific models of force and motion, and some applications, e.g. friction, levers and pulleys.


  • Waves and Particles: Investigate and use scientific models to explain the physical phenomena of light, sound and heat.


  • Electricity and Magnetism: Investigate and use simple scientific models of electrical circuits and magnets.

  • Te Tōpana me te Nekenga: Ka tūhura, ka whakamahi i te tauira pūtaiao hei whakaatu i te tōpana me te nekenga, me ētahi whakamahinga, pēnei i te waku, te kauwhiti me te tauru.


  • Te Ngaru me te Ngotangota: Ka tūhura, ka whakamahi i te tauira pūtaiao hei whakaatu i te aho, te oro me te pōkākā.


  • Te Hiko me te Autō: Ka tūhura, ka whakamahi i ngā tauira pūtaiao māmā mō ngā ara iahiko me ngā autō.

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Learning Intentions
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Integration Ideas

Learning Intentions are from the Ministry of Education

Integration ideas are from the Ministry of Education

Level 3

  • Students can explore how mirrors reflect light. They can suggest directions in which the light is likely to travel.

  • Students can explore how shadows change in size and intensity. They can make links between shadows and angles of light from the Sun, a torch, or an overhead projector.

  • Students can explore various lenses and observe the different ways they refract light.

  • Students can explore and describe ways in which white light can be split into a spectrum and discuss the idea that white light is made up of many colours of light.

Level 4

  • Students can investigate how mirrors reflect light. They can explain their observations using ideas about light that scientists have proposed.

  • Students can describe how the intensity and length of a shadow can change. They can understand relationships and trends in observations.

  • Students can research how scanners work and attempt to explain how the machine can “read” information in a barcode.

  • Students can compare their intuitive ideas with scientific concepts about lenses and the refraction of light.

  • Students can explore and describe ways in which white light can be split into a spectrum. They can make links between their observations and scientific ideas.

  • Mathematics and Statistics (Number and Algebra): Sketch a graph to show the height of a shadow from a nearby building at different times of the day.

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