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East Tennessee State University

2021

Clemmer College of Education and Human Development

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A Light Challenge: First Graders Engineer An Obstacle Course With Flashlights, Alissa A. Lange, Erin Rice, Noell Howe, Qiuju Tian Jan 2021

A Light Challenge: First Graders Engineer An Obstacle Course With Flashlights, Alissa A. Lange, Erin Rice, Noell Howe, Qiuju Tian

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In this class, we wanted to support students’ knowledge of light and the ways in which it interacts with other materials through a series of connected learning experiences. These experiences are related to NGSS standard 1-PS4-3 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer. Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light. We aimed for children to discover that light tends to move in a straight line unless something gets in the way, materials can affect the beam of light, and the way …