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__**Forms of Energy Unit Resources **__


 * Classroom Application Document**- Provides sample lessons, activities, and additional resources to support student learning of Physical Science Standards 5.2.6.C Forms of Energy and 5.2.6.D Energy Transfer and Conservation.

[|Science, Optics, and You] Science, Optics & You is a new interdisciplinary optics, light and microscopy curriculum resource package targeting elementary grade students. It is a collaborative project of the [|Center for Integrating Research and Learning] at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and [|Molecular Expressions]. The project combines scientific inquiry with hands-on instruction and state-of-the-art educational technology to equip students with skills for the twenty-first century. It provides an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates science, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and the arts.

[|Investigating Special Properties of Light]Light possesses many special properties. It may be bent, reflected, diffracted, used to create optical illusions, and has a special relationship with heat. This lesson plan utilizes learning centers to allow student explore the properties of light.

[|400 Years of the Telescope]2009 documentary available for viewing from PBS. Site has a wealth of information and teacher resources.

If you have access to some lenses and mirrors in your school science supply room, this set of demonstration activities will help your students understand more about how telescopes work, the differences between telescopes made with mirrors and those made with lenses, and how we are continuing the tradition of Galileo and Newton in building new telescopes today. Contributed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and in association with the 400 Years of the Telescope documentary.