Over the past few weeks in the
classroom we have been looking at how light moves and how we can manipulate the
movement of light sometimes. We took a
disco ball light that ran on batteries.
When it was turned on, the ball would light up and spin and the children
were able to see how the white light moved along a surface.
We tried the
same thing again but with a colored light.
This time we covered the table with paper and offered the children
crayons that were similar colors to the light pieces on the spinning
light. We wanted to see if the children
would make the connection between the crayons and the motion of the light spinning
on the table.
The children immediately started to
draw large circles on the paper over where the light was spinning. We noticed they were not making lines or
dots, just circles and circular motions.
One of the children began to get frustrated when he tried to draw on the
light on the table because the light continued to spin. It might be interesting to repeat this lesson
to see if he finds a strategy to use while tracing the light.
In the
future, it will be interesting to see if the children would be more inclined to
trace a light projected onto the wall or table that is stationary. It will be neat to compare the actions of the
children with a spinning light, and a stationary light.
