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All About Light
All About Light
By, Lisa Trumbauer
Description: If you are looking to Introduce your students to the world of light this book Is for you! This book Includes very useful pictures with basic texts for students to really understand. I would recommend this book for students who are just starting to learn or may need an additional resource about how the light process works.
Focus Questions:
What is light? How do we use light?
What are examples that give off light?
What can light go through? What can't it go through?
Why do objects look broken through water?
Posted by: Alyssa Costantino
Here Is a read aloud!
Light, Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows
Light, Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows
by, Natalie Rosinsky
Description: This book Is a great resource to teach students facts about lights, shadows, mirrors, and rainbows. This book Is separated Into small chapters with the topics of light, shadows, mirrors, and rainbows. This story also contains colorful Images that grab the readers' attention and fun facts throughout the story. This story would be very engaging In a science classroom.
Focus questions:
What Is light?
How Is a shadow formed?
What happens when a light Is shinned on a mirror?
What is needed to create a rainbow?
What did you like about this book? Or what did you not like about this book?
Posted by: Alyssa Costantino
A Ray of Light
A Ray of Light
Author & Photographer: Walter Wick
Summary:
Walter Wick's mesmerizing photographs paired with simple yet fascinating text and scientific observations help readers understand the secrets and complexity of light. You will learn what light is made of and how it fits alongside everything else in the world. Walter introduces readers into the mystery behind incandescence, light waves, the color spectrum, and iridescence as well as how we perceive light in our world and beyond. Walter Wick demonstrates that science and art both offer ways to observe the world around us.
Focus Questions:
What do you see in each picture? What does it make you wonder?
How do the properties of light create these illusions?
Why do we see different colors of light?
How does light travel?
Posted by: Lauren Pio
Light Waves
Light Waves
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Anna Raff
Summary:
This kid-friendly introduction to the physics of light covers the basics of solar energy, the electromagnetic spectrum, photon particles, light scattering, and reflection and refraction. Readers will follow along as two children and a cow in a lab coat learn how light works in realistic and imaginative scenarios.
Focus Questions:
What does the cow use to create a color spectrum? How does it work?
Why are we able to see different colors of light?
How fast does light travel?
How does light help sustain life on Earth?
Posted by: Lauren Pio
Standards
1-PS4-2 Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated.
1-PS4-3 Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
1-PS4-4 Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
Light Is All Around Us
Author: Wendy Pfeffer
Illustrator: Paul Meisel
Description:
This very colorful illustration explains the many forms in which light takes and explains what makes up that light. The book discusses the sun, flashlights, light that comes from animals such as fireflies and sea animals, and also discusses light speed. There are many engaging concepts and vocab to teach to students, it would make for a good interactive read-aloud for an introduction to this idea of light in our world.
Focus Questions:
How can we see objects when it is dark?
What is light?
How can we see different colors of light?
How can some animals produce light?
Posted by: Samantha Coleman
Eyes and Ears
Author: Seymour Simon
Summary:
This book details about the functions of both eyes and ears. Readers can learn about how our eyes and ears interact with the world around us with this book. It also discusses how we see light and hear sounds. This also discusses how assistive technology such as glasses or hearing aids work and how they can help people.
Focus Questions:
Does light and sound travel through waves?
What piece of technology are eyes similar to?
What do the nerve cells on hairs in your ears do?
True or False: The eyes and ears both have parts that send messages to our brain.
Posted by: Miciyah Carter
Light
Light
By: Ellen Lawrence
Summary:
Light by Ellen Lawrence is structured like a miniature children's textbook. It includes great facts and background information about light as well as guided experiments to test different light theories. The book is filled with great illustrations and pictures of students, which I really appreciate because it is important for students to be able to see themselves represented in their course material. I read Light on epic, and on epic it provides after reading discussion questions, as well as a short quiz, so I would recommend using that platform! Its super easy to navigate and free for students.
Focus Questions:
Why is light so important.
What type of light source is the sun?
Which of the pictures on the second page are examples of natural light?
How does light work?
True or False: Light travels from one place to another really slowly?
NGSS Science Standards:
4-PS3-1 Energy- Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
4-PS3-2 Energy-Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Light Energy
Light Energy
Author: Bold Kids
Summary:
This childrens book focuses on light and what an amazing form of energy that it is. It talks about how fast light is and how not even the human body can slow it down. It defines the study of light as photonics and teaches readers the importance light has in our daily lives even though it has no mass!
Focus Questions:
What affect does light play in our lives?
What is the study of light called?
Is light energy slow or fast?
Can you see the Sun without seeing the moon?
Posted by: Peyton Saunders
Cross Cutting Concepts:
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
Energy and Matter
How to Measure Light
How to Measure Light
Author: Baby Professor
Summary:
This book is primarily meant for fifth graders with the intention to teach them they ways that light is measured in. It is made with the curriculum in mind. In this book, they will learn about wavelengths, frequency and cycle. It also studies white light characteristics such as translucency, transparency and opacity.
Focus Questions:
What are ways we can measure light?
What are some characteristics of white light?
What is the purpose of measuring light?
What is the difference in measuring energy units versus quantum units?
Posted by: Peyton Saunders
Cross cutting concepts:
Energy and Matter
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
The Energy We See: A Look at Light
The Energy We See: A Look at Light
Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Summary:
This book explores how we see light in the world around us. The way light comes through windows, the way a campfire lights up in a dark forest or just simply where light comes from in general. Students will be able to learn about matter, energy and even forces from this wonderful book!
Focus Questions:
How does light travel?
Where does light come from?
What is matter?
How does light affect our lives?
Posted by: Peyton Saunders
Standards:
1-PS4-2
1-PS4-3
1-ESS1-1
Shadows
Shadows
Author: Sharon Coan
Summary:
This book introduces readers to the concept of shadows, how they are made, and why they follow us around on a sunny day! Beyond just this, the nonfiction book talks about all of the different aspects of shadows and what they mean. Highlighting vocabulary, giving specific details, and offering vivid photos, this would be a really great book to help students explore shadows and apply what they learned with an experiment at the end.
Focus Questions:
How are shadows made?
Are shadows always exactly the same size? How do you know?
Does everything have a shadow? How do you know?
Posted by: Abby Jankowski
Cross-cutting concepts:
Energy and matter
Influence of engineering, technology, and science on society and the natural world
The Science of Light
Author: Steve Parker
Description:
This book is a part of the same series as "The Science of Sound" by Steve Parker. Similar to that book this one offers vocabulary for students to explore and help explain the phenomena that is light. It also offers experiments for students to try in the classroom that have to do with the colors of light, how light can turn a corner, magnifying glasses and mirrors, and plenty of other concepts. Just as the book about sound this book includes a history of light ideas that were discovered and different devices built to use with light. This one isn't as much of a read-aloud, but as more of a guide to inquiry in the classroom.
Focus questions:
What is light?
Are there colors in light?
What objects can we use that have to do with light?
Posted by: Samantha Coleman
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