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Year 8 · Science

Light Waves

Year 8 learners practise how light waves and lenses make images.

The activities include Describe Different Types of Reflection, Describe How Waves Transfer Information by Microphones and Speakers, Describe Properties of Light Waves, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Describe Different Types of Reflection
  • Describe How Waves Transfer Information by Microphones and Speakers
  • Describe Properties of Light Waves
  • Describe Refraction
  • Describe the Effects of Mixing Primary and Secondary Colours of White Light
  • Explain How Images are Made by Eyes and Cameras
  • Explain How Lenses Form Images
  • Explain the Effects of Mixing Primary Colours of Light

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: Refracting Light

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can describe and draw how a ray of light refracts when it moves from one medium to another, and explain how refraction can cause virtual images. Light changes direction when it moves into a new m

  • Oak: Seeing In Colour

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can state the primary colours of light, describe how they mix to produce other colours, and explain how the eye detects colour. All colours of light can be created by mixing the primary colours o

  • Oak: Focusing Light

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can explain how light from an object can be focused by a converging lens to form an image. Some of the light from objects can pass through a lens and become focused to form an image on a screen.

  • Sound Technology Collaborative Learning Activity

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    KS3 Sound/Waves activity includes labelled microphone and loudspeaker information sheets, a PowerPoint, table, worksheet and answers; pupils practise how sound energy converts to electrical signals in a microphone and ba

  • Oak lesson slides: Refracting Light

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can describe and draw how a ray of light refracts when it moves from one medium to another, and explain how refraction can cause virtual images. Light changes direction when it moves into a new m

  • Oak worksheet: Refracting Light

    Oak National Academy · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can describe and draw how a ray of light refracts when it moves from one medium to another, and explain how refraction can cause virtual images. Light changes direction when it moves into a new m

  • Oak lesson slides: Seeing In Colour

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can state the primary colours of light, describe how they mix to produce other colours, and explain how the eye detects colour. All colours of light can be created by mixing the primary colours o

  • Oak worksheet: Seeing In Colour

    Oak National Academy · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    Year 8 science lesson. I can state the primary colours of light, describe how they mix to produce other colours, and explain how the eye detects colour. All colours of light can be created by mixing the primary colours o