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:- If you use transparent thing does the colour make difference to the amount of light?<br />
:- If you use transparent thing does the colour make difference to the amount of light?<br />


8. Just explore, keep noting down the discoveries, is there a pattern? Are we starting to see the “shadowness” of shadow? Or is it still to difficult?<br />
8. Just explore, keep noting down the discoveries, is there a pattern? Are we starting to see the “shadowness” of shadow? Or is it still too difficult?<br />
If you have access to enough transparent filters of colour, get the class to look through them and put them in order of brightness!
If you have access to enough transparent filters of colour, get the class to look through them and put them in order of brightness!
Some colours appear much brighter than others, yellows often seem brighter than reds, blues can appear dull. As a diversion, ask them about how the colour makes them feel, some colours like reds are supposed to make things look warm, while blues make it feel cold!<br />
Some colours appear much brighter than others, yellows often seem brighter than reds, blues can appear dull. As a diversion, ask them about how the colour makes them feel, some colours like reds are supposed to make things look warm, while blues make it feel cold!<br />
You can use coloured paper presentation folders (the ones you clip into a file folder). Ask them to place over work and see if helps reading? Some people find bright white paper too bright to read off (we are getting close to dyslexia testing here, so a bit of awareness is required). They may already be aware of colour combinations that make reading difficult e.g. bright yellow on bright white!
You can use coloured paper presentation folders (the ones you clip into a file folder). Ask them to place over work and see if helps reading? Some people find bright white paper too bright to read off (we are getting close to dyslexia testing here, so a bit of awareness is required). They may already be aware of colour combinations that make reading difficult e.g. bright yellow on bright white!
 
== Teacher’s notes ==
== Teacher’s notes ==