EXPLORING LIGHT MONTH
Your students will make a solar pop bottle light! They will read amazing books such as Shamma Shines and Luzvimenda's Light and play fun games.
(Click on each calendar day to access your lesson plans and teaching resources)
Read: Luzvimenda's Light
Play: Four Square Volleyball
Do: Make observations of viewing cards in your box (4-8) Measure light levels with microbit
Read: Shamaa Shines
Play: Robot Tag
Do: Make Translucent Jokes
(Micro:bit) Program a remote light sensor using two micro:bits
Read: Luzvimenda's Light
Play: I SPY
Do: (K-2) Decorate Shamaa’s bat cave (4-8) Decorate and make furniture for Luzvimenda’s home (Your Peep Hole box)
Play: Blind Obstacle Course
Do: Decode Braille Jokes: Use the braille alphabet key to discover the answers to some jokes.
Read: Shamaa Shines
Play: Knock-out
Do: (K-2) Make a bat out of salt dough and give it a medical checkup (4-8) Decorate Luzvimenda’s home (Your Peep Hole box)
Read: Eye Can See!: Meethil Momaya
Play: Ocean Animal Relay
Do: Test Beachcombing Materials to see if they are translucent, transparent, or opaque
Read: Luzvimenda's Light
Play: Jump Rope
Do: Bring more light into the bat’s cave by inserting a test tube full of water through the hole.
Do: Design and build an improved solar soda bottle light
Read: Sylvie the Sensitive Caterpillar
Play: Toilet Tag
Do: (K-3) Sylvie's Socks
(4-8) Design and build an improved solar soda bottle light
Play: Keep the Ball
Do: (K-2) Solve sun, moon and star puzzles.
(4-8) Make light inventions. Make an LED shine, How many lights can you power with one battery. Make a light shine without using batteries
Read: The Three Little Birds
Play: Bird Nest
Do: (K-2) Make a shade structure using B-Barbs
(4-8) Invention showcase. Walk around and see what other students invented.
Play: Grab and Dash
Do: Sense Without Sight: Work with a partner to guide you in various tasks without using your sight.
Play: Kick the Can
Do: Same or different: Feel Braille patterns with your fingertips to see if they are the same or different.
Play: Crazy Tag
Do: Build a sundial
Play: Land, Air, Sea
Do: (K-3) Bend light with water. Bend light with Tedros test tube. Bend light with various shaped containers.
(4-8) Robotics Lab: Line Tracking
Play: Hot Potato Hide-and-Seek
Do: Can you read Braille with your fingertips? Feel Braille flash cards and reference the answer key to see if you can read Braille.
Read: STEMTaught Journal
Play: Bubble Hop
STEM (K-3) Blow/Observe Bubbles
Code: (4-8th) Program your robot!
Read: STEMTaught Journal
Play: Ice Cubes
STEM (K-8) Start to make your box into a house etc (get creative). Cut out cards and test what you can see.
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Read: Rosa's Shadow
Play: Shadow Tag
STEM (K-3) Trace your Shadow every hour - Make a Paper Tube Telescope.
Code: (4-8th) Program your robot!
Read: STEMTaught Journal
Play: Straddle Ball
STEM (4-8th) Make Clap Sticks
Code: (K-3rd) Program your robot!
Read: Vibrations Make Sound
Play: Human Tic-tac-toe
STEM (K-8) Cooking Time
Make a Reed Kazoo.