Grade 1 light and sound
How light travels and makes shadows and colours, and how sound is made and heard. Here is what we have for Grade 1.
Lessons
Light and Shadows
Why does my shadow follow me, and why is it so long in the morning? Young scientists chase their shadows, track the Sun across the day and test which things let light through.
Sound: Can You See a Sound?
Can you see a sound? Young scientists make rice dance on a drum, talk through a string telephone and build a rubber-band guitar to find out that every sound starts with something shaking.
Earth and Sky at Home
Make a rainbow on the kitchen floor, grow crystals on a windowsill and build a cloud in a jar. Three classic home experiments that actually work, with the real science explained for grown-ups.
Printable worksheets
Online practice
- Sound travels through things
- High and low pitch
- Loud and soft sounds
- Sound comes from vibration
- Sort sounds by source
- Light is reflected
- Can you hear it
- Light sources
- Sort by how light passes
- Clear, translucent or opaque
- Shadows form
- Shadow length through the day
- Mirror reflection
- Plants need sunlight
- Shadows and the sun
- Sound is fast
- Echo
- Light can warm things
- Measure a shadow
- Sound or light
- Shadow and sun angle
- Hearing from far
Free tools
Sound Wave Lab
Play a tone, change its pitch and loudness, and watch the wave change shape. Includes a live microphone wave view to see your own voice.
Sun and Shadow
Move through the day and the year to see where the Sun is in the sky, how long a stick's shadow is, and how many hours of daylight any latitude gets.
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