I reviewed Twinkl Educational Resources recently and was amazed by the sheer amount of fun and educational activities available. Twinkl has a huge range of free materials catering for Early Years, KS1 and KS2 which can be downloaded and printed, as well as extra premium resources which you pay an annual subscription to have access to. Twinkl have also just been shortlisted as a finalist for a BETTs 2013 award.
The site is easy to navigate, and helpfully divided into different subject areas. I was of course drawn stright to the Science section. My 5 year old has been learning about materials at school this term, so I knew he would enjoy this transparent vs non transparent activity.
The idea is to decide whether the items on the squares are transparent or not.
We talked about how transparent objects look clear and you can see straight through them, whilst non transparent objects you cannot see through. We call these opaque.
I took the activity a step further and collected some objects from around the house, and asked the children to classify them as transparent or non -transparent.
They did a fantastic job sorting the objects for me.
As they did so well with the sorting, I then showed them some tracing paper. We talked about how we couldn’t see though it when we tried to look, but if we put it on top of another piece of paper we could see the drawing underneath Tracing paper is an example of a translucent object.
The Science
The reason we can see through transparent objects is that they transmit light without scattering it.
Big thanks to Twinkl for the resources for this post. Twinkl also has reward stickers available and gift vouchers for teachers coming soon.
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Love this activity! I’ve used Twinkl quite a bit as a teacher and now as a mum it’s one of my first ports of call. This activity is super simple and really effective.
Thanks lovely. x
Love this idea, I really like the way you’ve applied your knowledge of science to this post about twinkl!
My son brought home an activity they did today with the twinkl logo on it.. it is obviously a great resource for his school!
(and Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy)
Sounds like a great resource.Thanks for sharing.