SNAPSHOT ASSESSMENT: WHAT DO WE NEED TO SEE?
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Year group: 3 Module 3: Can You See Me? Lessons 1, 4, EL2?
Curriculum statement:
Recognise that we need light in order to see things and that dark is the
absence of light.
Activity instructions
This activity can be carried out with a small group or individuals. Lay
the cards out on a table and ask children to consider each object in
turn and to decide whether or not it helps them to see. Ask children
to describe each object carefully – i.e. a candle with a flame, an open
eye – and to explain how it enables them to see (light sources give out
light, eyes take light in).
From the group of objects that enable them to see, ask children to
make a separate group containing the things that make their own light
(sun, torch, TV, table lamp, candle with flame, stars). Establish that we
call these light sources.
Put all the cards back together and ask the children to sort them into
two piles: things that make their own light and enable us to see (the
light sources), and things that may help us to see better (glasses,
window, mirrors, carrots) and if they can explain why? (Glasses
improve eye sight, windows let light through, mirrors and high vis
vests reflect light, carrots contain vitamins which are good for eyes.)
Remove all the light sources, leaving just the open eye. Ask children
what they would be able to see if there were no light sources?
(Absolutely nothing.) Ask: What do we call it when there
is no light? (Dark or darkness.)
Questions to check understanding
Are any of the objects always light sources? (The Sun.)
How did you decide whether an object is a light source?
How could you check whether an object gives off its own
light? Which objects need to have something done to
them to make them a light source? (The TV, torch and
lamp need to be switched on, and the candle needs to
be lit.) Which two things are needed to see? (Eyes and
source of light.)
Curriculum statement is achieved if the child:
Can clearly identify that eyes and a light source are
needed to see anything. Can explain that without a light
source there is darkness and eyes can see nothing.
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SNAPSHOT ASSESSMENT: WHAT DO WE NEED TO SEE?
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Year group: 3 Module 3: Can You See Me? Lessons 1, 4, EL2?
www.collins.co.uk © HarperCollinsPublishers Limited 2014
SNAPSHOT ASSESSMENT: WHAT DO WE NEED TO SEE?
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Year group: 3 Module 3: Can You See Me? Lessons 1, 4, EL2?
www.collins.co.uk © HarperCollinsPublishers Limited 2014