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Energy in Photons—Demonstration Kit

By: Rhonda Reist, Olathe North High School, Olathe, KS

Energy in Photons Chemistry and Physics Demonstration Kit
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Energy in Photons Chemistry and Physics Demonstration Kit
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Item #: AP4576 

Price: $36.99

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The Energy in Photons Chemistry and Physics Demonstration Kit is great to use to teach absorption and emission of light, interpretation of transmittance graphs and the photoelectric effect. Clarify between light intensity and light energy.

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Ready, Set, Glow! Clarify the difference between the intensity—or brightness—of light and the energy of light. In this teacher-developed kit, light is shined through a rainbow of filters onto a piece of phosphorescent material. The filters absorb some wavelengths of the light and transmit others. If the transmitted wavelengths of light are high enough in energy, the phosphorescent material will phosphoresce or glow in the dark! This demonstration allows students to explore the reasons for this brilliant phenomenon. A great kit to use when teaching absorption and emission of light, interpretation of transmittance graphs and the photoelectric effect. Detailed Teacher Demonstration Notes included.

Concepts: Phosphorescence, transmittance, absorption, emission.
Time Required: 15 minutes
Materials Provided: Energy in Photons Demonstrator Card.

Specifications

Materials Included in Kit: 
Black card cover, 4¼" x 11"
Black card with 6 circles, folded, 8½" x 11"
Phosphorescent vinyl, adhesive back, 10½" l x 1" w
Theater gel, blue, 1½" square
Theater gel, green, 1½" square
Theater gel, orange, 1½" square
Theater gel, purple, 1½" square
Theater gel, red, 1½" square
Theater gel, yellow, 1½" square


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)†

Science & Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems
Planning and carrying out investigations
Engaging in argument from evidence
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Obtaining, evaluation, and communicating information

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-PS4.A: Wave Properties
MS-PS4.B: Electromagnetic Radiation
HS-PS3.A: Definitions of Energy
HS-PS4.A: Wave Properties
HS-PS4.B: Electromagnetic Radiation

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Scale, proportion, and quantity
Energy and matter

Performance Expectations

MS-PS4-1. Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.
MS-PS4-2. Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
HS-PS4-1. Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.
HS-PS4-3. Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea that electromagnetic radiation can be described either by a wave model or a particle model, and that for some situations one model is more useful than the other.