Halifax: Light & Sound Show

Location: Halifax

Dive into a 30-minute adventure of discovery as we explore the magic of light, the mysteries of sound and their amazing effects all around us.

Fun, interactive and most importantly curriculum-linked. Get ready to see, hear and discover science!

Learning objectives:

• Recognise different sources of light.
• Understand that it is dangerous to look directly at the sun.
• Learn that light is a source of energy that travels in straight lines.
• Learn about refraction and reflection.
• Learn what shadows are and why they change size.
• That sound is a type of energy caused by vibrations.
• That sounds travels through a medium in sound waves to our ears.
• Learn about volume and understand that the bigger the vibration, the louder the sound.
• Understand how the pitch of a sound changes depending on how fast or slow the vibrations are.
• That scale is a group of notes arranged in order of pitch.

Curriculum links:

Year 3 Light

• Recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
• Notice that light is reflected from surfaces
• Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes.
• Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.
• Find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

This science show can also be used to refresh Year 6 knowledge on the topic of light.

Year 4 Sound

• Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.
• Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.
• Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.
• Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.
• Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Year 6 Light

• Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines.
• Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye.
• Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes.
• Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.

Resources:

• Light & Sound show teachers’ pack