KaleiDIYscope

Duration: 20 minutes

Grade Levels: K-6

Make your own kaleidoscope! Using a paper towel roll, cardboard, and tin foil, you can recreate one of MOXI’s exhibits.
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Lesson Plan

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Grade Levels: K-6

Duration: 20 minutes

Concepts/Skills: Asking questions Defining problems Designing solutions Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

 

Climate Standards Connections

Next Generation Science Standards
Grade Performance Expectation Description
1 1-PS4-3 Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
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Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary Examples of materials could include those that are transparent (such as clear plastic), translucent (such as wax paper), opaque (such as cardboard), and reflective (such as a mirror). Assessment does not include the speed of light.