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YR6 Eagle Class News @FP

YR6 Eagle class @FP, in our topic about ‘Light’ we are learning how light travels. We have conducted several investigations and found out that if you place a torch on a table in a dark room, the beam travels in a straight line. The shadow has the same shape as the object that cast it and it changes as the light source moves. We have used mirrors to make periscopes. This week we have looked at Isaak Newton’s discovery of how light shining onto a glass prism is a similar process to a formation of rainbow as the glass prism separates the white light into colours. To show this, we have made colour changing wheels- when you spin it very fast, the colours blend and you can see white again.