Level 1: Echoes and rainbows

Waves, sound and light · level 1 of 8 · rough age 5-6 (a guide for parents; anyone can start anywhere)

Sound and light are all around you. This first level makes sounds by shaking things, makes them loud and quiet, high and low, and bounces them back as echoes. Then it splits sunlight into a rainbow. At the end you find out how sounds and colours change on Mars, where the sunset is blue.

Lesson	You will be able to
Making sounds	Show that sounds come from things shaking
Loud and quiet	Make a sound louder or quieter
High and low sounds	Tell high sounds from low sounds, and make each one
Echoes	Say what an echo is and where you can hear one
Rainbows	Name the colours of the rainbow and say what makes one
Sounds and colours on Mars	Say how sounds and sky colours are different on Mars

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