Year 5's Science Experiment

Year 5's Light Science Experiment

Last week year 5 experimented how to make light travel around the corner of a stack of books. We were allowed to use 2 mirrors to get the light around the pile of books. We were also allowed to use as many objects on our table to reflect the light.Some tables shone the light onto the mirror, used the mirror to reflect the light onto an object (e.g. drink bottle) and used that object to reflect light around the books.

You had to put the source of light in a position where it can reflect onto the mirrors and around the books. Because we only had 2 mirrors we didn't get the light around the books,the light source wasn't strong either so it didn't get around.  

Last week year five did a science experiment . what we did was we had a pile of books in the middle of the desk and had to get light around the books with two mirrors and a torch most of us put one mirror on the left slightly tilted and one on the right slightly tilted and put the torch facing a mirror.to reflect on to the other mirror to go around the books.

It was great fun testing it out some groups succeeded by getting the light around the books and some did not succeed. After we finished we had to draw a simple labeled areal shot diagram. Then we discussed with our table group what we thought the answers we found in our findings were.

Light and Materials
On Tuesday afternoon we did an experiment to see which materials light would pass through.the materials were a piece of crepe paper,foil,rubber glove,baking paper, yellow cardboard, orange paper and cellophane.