🔦 Part 1: Light Properties

1. How does light travel?

In curved lines

In straight lines

In zigzag patterns

In circles

2. What happens when light hits a mirror?

The light disappears

The light bounces back (reflects)

The light goes through it

The light changes colour

3. When light passes through water, what can happen to it?

It bends (refracts)

It stops moving

It becomes solid

It turns into heat

4. Fill in the blanks using the words: fast, reflection, refraction

Light travels very _____________ and in straight lines. When light bounces off a surface, this is called _____________. When light bends as it passes through different materials, this is called _____________.

🔬 Part 2: Investigation Observations

5. At the Reflection Station, what did you observe when you used the flat mirror?

6. At the Refraction Station, describe what happened to the light when it passed through the water.

7. Draw what you observed when light hit a curved mirror. Show the path of the light with arrows.

8. Which materials allowed light to pass through them? Tick all that apply:

Clear water

Plastic blocks

Mirror

Glass

Your hand

🌟 Part 3: Connecting to Te Ao Māori

9. The Māori word for light is marama. In Māori stories, light often represents knowledge and understanding emerging from darkness. How might the properties of light (reflection and refraction) be used to explain natural phenomena that Māori observed?

10. Think about rainbows, which occur when sunlight refracts through water droplets. Write one sentence about how this light property might have been important to Māori people.