Sources of Light Worksheet

List words associated with light and words associated with dark, keeping the two sets in their own labelled columns

Name things that are sources of light, following the pattern set by the sun as the given example

The two sheets share one heading and work well either side of a practical session - the word chart to open the topic, the sources chart to record what was found

Point students at "The sun" on the second sheet before they start, so the entries that follow are things that give out light rather than things that merely look bright

The LIGHT and DARK areas invite talk before writing, which makes the first chart a good paired or small-group brainstorm rather than silent work

Because both sheets are named and dated, the same pair can be run again at the end of the topic and the two attempts set side by side to show what has been learned

Building science vocabulary - students collect the words they associate with light and with dark under two labels on the opening chart.

Identifying sources of light - the second chart asks for things that give out light, with the sun supplied as the first entry to define what counts.

Sorting an idea against its opposite - LIGHT and DARK sit side by side on one page, so each word offered has to be assigned to one column or the other.

Recording work for later comparison - Name and Date lines on both sheets support running the pair twice across a unit and comparing the two sets of responses.