🔬 4th Grade Science · Unit 4
Light and the Senses
11 short narrated lessons in 2 chapters, each with pictures, a quiz with a hint and a second try, and an explanation for every answer.
Standards: 4-PS4-2 4-LS1-2
What your child will learn
Light and seeing
- Light Goes StraightExplain that light travels in straight lines from a source.
- Light Bounces!Describe how light reflects off objects and mirrors.
- How Do We See Things?Use a model to show that we see an object when light reflects off it and enters our eyes.
- See-Through or Not?Classify materials as transparent, translucent or opaque based on how light passes through them.
- Light and Seeing: A Review ReviewReview how light travels and reflects and how light entering the eye lets us see.
Animal senses
- Senses: Your Body's Information GatherersExplain that animals use sense receptors to gather information about their surroundings.
- Messages to the BrainDescribe how nerves carry information from the senses to the brain.
- Sense It, Then Act!Explain how animals use information from their senses to respond, like running from danger.
- Remember That? Senses and MemoryDescribe how animals store information as memories and use them to guide actions.
- Sense, Think, Act: A Review ReviewReview how animals receive, process and respond to information from their senses.
- Unit 4 Test: Light and the SensesShow what you learned in the whole unit (Light and seeing, Animal senses) by answering mixed questions.
Try a question from this unit
From the lesson “Light Goes Straight”
What is a light source?
Show the answer
Something that makes its own light. A light source makes its own light, like the Sun, a lamp or a flashlight.
Hint kids see after a wrong try: “Think of the Sun, a lamp and a candle.”
Key words
- light source
- reflect
- eye
- model
- transparent
- opaque
- sense
- receptor
- brain
- nerve
- respond
- memory
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