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Understanding Refraction and Snell's Law

This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching Key Stage 4 students about refraction and Snell's law. It aims to help students understand light behavior in different media and calculate angles of refraction using given refractive indices. Teachers are encouraged to engage students with worksheets and a refraction calculator for practical application.

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Understanding Refraction and Snell's Law

This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching Key Stage 4 students about refraction and Snell's law. It aims to help students understand light behavior in different media and calculate angles of refraction using given refractive indices. Teachers are encouraged to engage students with worksheets and a refraction calculator for practical application.

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Topic Refraction and Snell’s law Level Key Stage 4 (or any course for students

aged 14-16)

Outcomes 1. To understand what happens to light as it travels through media of different densities
2. Use Snell’s law to calculate angle of refraction

Information • Waves can be transmitted, reflected or absorbed. Refraction is a phenomenon associated


for teachers with transmission. Refraction is commonly taught with respect to two interfaces, i.e.
air/glass/air and is often described as light ‘bending’ towards the normal as it enters the
more optically dense medium and ‘bending’ away from the normal as it leaves the more
optically dense medium. But what happens to light if it goes through more than one
different material? Get your students to complete the worksheet by getting them to draw
normal lines and refracted rays. Make sure your students can draw normal lines before
completing this worksheet.
• To stretch students, ask them to calculate the angle of refraction at each boundary and
hence calculate the final angle of refraction using the refractive index of each material listed
below.
Refractive index (n):
Air = 1
Water = 1.3
Glass = 1.5
Diamond = 2.4
You can check your answers using this refraction calculator:
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