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Year 6 · Science

How Objects Are Seen Ii

Year 6 learners practise the law of reflection and how mirrors work.

The activities include Understand How Light is Reflected off Different Surfaces, Understand How Light Travels and its Scientific Uses, Understand the Law of Reflection and How We Use Mirrors in Daily Life. The checked support below includes video, interactive, teaching, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Understand How Light is Reflected off Different Surfaces
  • Understand How Light Travels and its Scientific Uses
  • Understand the Law of Reflection and How We Use Mirrors in Daily Life

Checked learning resources

  • Changing the direction of light

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 science lesson, video, worksheet and quizzes showing how lenses and mirrors change light paths in practical optical instruments.

  • Changing the direction of light worksheet and quiz downloads

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 science downloadable Year 6 worksheet and starter and exit quizzes showing how lenses and mirrors change light paths in practical optical instruments.

  • Mirrors and Reflected Light KS2 Teaching PowerPoint

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    KS2 science teaching PowerPoint explaining straight-line light, the law of reflection, incidence and reflection angles, specular and diffuse reflective surfaces, ray diagrams and activities predicting how mirrors reflect

  • KS2 Making a Periscope Activity

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Ages 9 to 12 science activity explaining the practical use of mirrors to redirect light in a periscope so people can see over or around obstacles.

  • Reflected light and mirrors

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 6 light lesson on reflection, mirrors and changing light direction, matching activity reflection rows.

  • Y6 Light: Mirrors and Reflections Lesson 3

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    Twinkl Year 6 resource from the checked corpus for How Objects Are Seen Ii.

  • Light - KS2 Science

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS2 topic page selected from the Year 6 Science corpus for How Objects Are Seen Ii.

  • Reflected light and mirrors worksheet and quiz downloads

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Free worksheet, starter quiz and exit quiz downloads for the Oak lesson Reflected light and mirrors.