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Exploring Light Month

Your students will make a peep hole box and learn about bats! They will make a solar pop bottle light! They will read amazing books such as Shamma Shines and Luzvimenda's Light and play fun games.

Day

1

Make a Dough Bat and Items for the Diorama Box

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Read: Shamaa Shines and Luzvimenda's Light

Play: Knockout

STEM: (K-3) Make a bat out of salt dough(4-8) Decorate your Diorama to Experiment with Light


Day

6

Beach Combing

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Read: The Sea and Joseph Plateau

Play: Straddle Ball

STEM: K-3 Explore Shells

4-8 Bubble Science

Day

11

Sense Without Sight

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Read: STEMTaught Journal

Play: Blind Obstacle Course

STEM: (K-8) Sense without sight challenge - Read braille with your fingertips

Day

16

Reading In The Dark

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Read: Kham's Precious Little Lamp and Wand Diaz Merced

Play: Land, Air, Sea

STEM: (K-8) Read in the dark

Day

2

Make a Diorama Box

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Read: Shamaa Shines and Luzvimenda's Light

Play: I Spy

STEM: (K-3) Make a Cave

(4-8) Make a dark box (Luzvimenda's home); Make observations in the dark

Day

7

Shadow Art and Foil Art

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Read: Rosa's Shadow

Play: Shadow Tag

STEM: (K-3) Make Shadow Art (4-8) Make Foil Art


Day

12

Dark and Light Socks

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Read: Sylvie's Socks + Hans and Zacharias Janssen

Play: Toilet Tag

STEM: (K-3) Sylvie's Socks (4-8) Meet Meeka and Beachcombing

Day

17

Heat Map and Observation Mission

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Read: A Beautiful Day and Artemis II

Play: Ice Cubes

STEM: (K-3) Make a playground temperature map; Go on an Observation Mission


Day

3

Make a Skylight

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Read: Luzvimenda's Light and Shamaa Shines

Play: Tic Tac Toe

STEM: (K-3) Make Observations with a Skylight, (4-8) Make a Skylight for your Diorama Box

Day

8

Earth's Rotation Investigation

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Read: Banana Moon

Play: Robot Tag

STEM: (K-8) Study Earth's Rotation (Optional 4-8) Make Bulan's Light Shine!

Day

13

Explore the Microscopic World

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Read: Under the Microscope

Play: Keep the Ball

STEM: (K-3) Learn to use a Microscope (4-8) Find Life in Water

Day

18

Stained Glass Art

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Read: The Best Thing Ever and Eugene Polly

Play: Kick the Can

STEM: (4-8) Make a tissue paper stained glass window

Day

4

Improve your Light

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Read: Luzvimenda's Light

Play: Jump Rope

STEM: (K-8) Improve your Light + Bend Light with Water

Day

9

Make Moon Rocks

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Read: Magnificent Moon Rocks and Anorthosite

Play: Crazy Tag

STEM: (K-8) Make and Investigate Moon Rocks


Day

14

Paper Telescope and Salt Exploration

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Read: Where Am I? + Jack Griffiths

Play: Hot Potato Hide-and-Seek

STEM: (K-3) Paper tube telescope (4-8) Salt exploration


Day

19

Shade Structures

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Read: The Three Little Birds and Zaha Hadid

Play: Bird Nest

STEM: (K-3) Help, my chocolate is melting! Make a shade structure (4-8) Engineer a Shade Structure


Day

5

Blow Bubbles and Engineering Showcase

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Read: Luzvimenda's Light and Shamaa Shines

Play: Bubble Hop

STEM: (K-3) Observe bubbles (4-8) Engineering showcase


Day

10

Make Galaxy Cups

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Read: What Hubble Sees!

Play: Four Square Volleyball

STEM:(K-8) Make galaxy cups

(K-8) Make a fruit and yogurt cone (Optional)

Day

15

Light and Shadow Patterns

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Read: Sun, Moon, Snowman and Mapping the Moonlit Sky

Play: Keep the Ball

STEM: (K-3) Make shadow art (4-8) Make a sundial

Day

20

How Fast Do Colors Mix In Water?

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Read: Colors and Dr. Marie Clark Taylor

Play: Kickball

STEM:

(K-3) Explore Light and Color

(4-8) How fast do colors mix in water?

All Exploring Light Month Materials

Click here to view the list of materials needed for the entire month.

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