Today, class VWh have been extending their understanding of shadow formation. They investigated how the size of shadows changes when an object moves further away from a light source. To conclude their learning in this unit, the children were given some reasoning contexts, having to back up their explanations with scientific theory. They also
made their own puppet theatre to stage their own drama of the dispute between Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke over Newton's theory of light and colour. Hooke believed that the colours of the Visible Spectrum were produced because the glass was corrupted and tainted the ray of white light, whereas Newton argued the light separated into individual colours due to refraction.
