Light helps us to see in the dark and sun light helps plants and animals to grow up big and strong too!
Here’s a fun activity you can do to learn about how light and objects have three different relationships.
What you’ll need:
- A torch
- lots of different objects from around the house: your teddy bear, books, toys, anything!
What to do:
Shine the torch through the objects to see if the light shines through it.
If the light shines through you have a transparent (pronounced trans – parent) object, but if the light doesn’t shine through the object is called opaque (pronounced o – pake ) Sometimes you’ll find an object that will let a little bit of light through and thats know as a translucent ( trans – loo – cent ).
These 3 levels are known as different kinds of transparency (trans – parin – see)
Shine the light through your hand, what kind of transparency does your hand have?
Have fun!
