Unit C - Light and Optics

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify challenges in explaining light and vision 

• Analyze how microscopes, telescopes, and other optical devices use the properties of light 

• Describe how the development of optical devices contributed to other discoveries in science Our knowledge about light and vision comes from explanations, inventions, and investigations.

• Investigate light beams and identify phenomena that show the nature of light.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how light is reflected, transmitted, and absorbed 

• Identify materials that are good absorbers, reflectors, and transmitters of light 

• Measure and predict angles of reflection and refraction 

• Describe how the refraction of light varies through different materials Light behaves in predictable ways. 

• Demonstrate the formation of images using a convex lens

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the characteristics and composition of sunlight 

• Explain the wave properties of light and the electromagnetic spectrum 

• Describe some of the technological applications of electromagnetic radiation 

• Recognize the dangers associated with certain forms of radiation 

• Evaluate, compare, and contrast different artificial and natural light sources 

• Describe how primary colours can be added to produce different colours and white light

Learning Outcomes:

• I can explain how objects are seen by the eye.

• I can describe similarities and differences between eyes and cameras.

• I can describe the differences between mammalian and other vertebrates and invertebrate eyes.

• I can describe how digital images are created, stored, and transmitted.