OpenSciEd Unit 6.1: Why do we sometimes see different things when looking at the same object? Spanish Student Edition

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ISBN 10: 1792474520 / ISBN 13: 9781792474521

Published by Kendall Hunt, 2020

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• Title: OpenSciEd Unit 6.1: Why do we sometimes see different things when looking at the same object? Spanish Student Edition
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1792474520
• ISBN 13: 9781792474521
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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How does a one-way mirror work? Though most everyone knows that one-way mirrors exist, having students model how they work turns out to be a very effective way to develop their thinking about how visible light travels and how we see images. Initial student models in this 6th grade light and matter science unit reveal a wide variety of ideas and explanations that motivate the unit investigations that help students figure out what is going on and lead them to a deeper understanding of the world around them. A video of an experience with a one-way mirror, gets students to organize and write down their initial ideas and then they dig in to test those ideas and figure out what is really happening. Students build a scaled box model of what they saw in the video to test out their ideas. Using two boxes combined together with a one-way mirror in between the two, students vary the presence of light in the two boxes to figure out how a one-way mirror works and improve their initial models so they accurately explain how light is reflected and transmitted through materials and the basics of how these behaviors of light result in the images we see. As the first 6th grade science unit in the OpenSciEd program, during the course of this unit, students also develop the foundation for classroom norms for collaboration that will be important across the whole program while answering several questions.