SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN

IN SCIENCE 7
MARCH 21 , 2022
I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
A. determine different sources of light;
B. distinguish among transparent, translucent, and opaque objects;
C. identify the characteristics of light: energy, frequency, and wavelength; and
D. relate the characteristics of light such as color and intensity to frequency and wavelength.
E. explain why the dispersion of light occurs; and
F. describe the formation of rainbow.
II. TOPIC: Unit 13: Light
4.1 Behavior of Light and Its Sources
14.2 Characteristics of Light
14.3 Dispersion of Light
REFERENCE: QUIPPER Unit 13: Light and Science 7 Textbook
III. PROCEDURE
a. PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES
MOTIVATION AND RECALL
PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY:
Philippine Pride
In this activity, the students will recall concepts about shadows, light, and how these two can be
utilized in entertainment.
Procedure:
1. Play the video of El Gamma Penumbra’s performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ReuOnKSi0s
Asia’s Got Talent. 7 May 2015. ‘El Gamma’s Touching Tribute to Mother Nature|Asia’s Got
Talent Grand Final 1’.
2. Let the students answer the guide questions individually. Then ask them to face their
seatmates and discuss their answers with each other.
3. Call volunteers to share their answers to the whole class.
Guide Questions:
1. What can you say about the performance of El Gamma Penumbra? How does their
performance differ from other common performances in talent shows?
The answers of the students may vary. The group uses shadows toform an image on a screen.
2. What are the basic requirements needed to produce a shadow play similar to what El Gamma
presented?
The basic requirements are a source of light, object/person to cast a shadow, and a screen.
3. How are shadows formed?
An object should block the light from the source.
4. How are the sizes of the shadows varied?
Objects should be placed near the source to create larger shadows and farther from the source
to create smaller shadows.
b. PRESENTATION
4.1 Behavior of Light and Its Sources

1. Discuss the different theories about the behavior of light. What is light? How does it behave? Is
light a wave or a particle?.
a. Emphasize the different theories proposed to describe the behavior of light.
i. Light is believed to be composed of a stream of particles called corpuscles in the 1600s.
ii. Newton strongly believed that light behaves like a particle. He proposed several pieces of evidence to
prove that light is a particle.
iii. Christian Huygens claims that light is a wave. He also used several points to prove his theory.
iv. Max Planck came up with a dual nature theory of light. He concluded that light can behave both as a
particle and as a wave.
b. Discuss the characteristics of light.
i. Light is an electromagnetic wave and does not need any medium to propagate.
ii. Light travels in a straight path.

2. Discuss how humans see objects. Start by asking the students this question: How do we see
objects?
a. Give one minute for the students to think, and instruct them to discuss their answers with their
seatmate. Ask two or more volunteers to share their answers in class.
b. Illustrate how light travels from the light source to our eye. Emphasize that some objects do not emit
light rather, they simply reflect light from the source before it travels to our eyes.
c. Differentiate luminous from nonluminous objects.

3. Discuss the transmission of light. How is light transmitted? How is it that we can see light
through a glass window but not in a thick cement wall?
a. Transmission of light occurs when light passes through, bounces off, or absorbed by objects. It depends
on the material through which light is transmitted.

4. Discuss the brightness of light. What are the factors affecting the brightness of light? Use Option
C to introduce the concept of the brightness of light.
a. The brightness of light is called intensity. It is dependent on the source and distance from the source.

14.2 Characteristics of Light

1. Discuss the electromagnetic spectrum.
2. Go through all the components of the EM spectrum. Gather the characteristics of each
component from the students since they already learned it from the activity.
i. Make sure that the basic information about each component will be mentioned by the students
(wavelength, approximate scale, frequency, and applications).
ii. Discuss radio waves.
1. Radio waves
iii. Discuss microwave.
iv. Discuss infrared.
v. Discuss visible light.
vi. Discuss visible light.
vii. Discuss X-rays.
viii. Discuss gamma rays.

14.3 Dispersion of Light

1. Discuss the dispersion of light.
a. Emphasize that white light is composed of different colors.
b. Explain what happens to white light as it passes through a prism. Associate this concept to the
dispersion of light.
c. Discuss refraction and how it is associated with the dispersion of light.
2. Explain how rainbows are formed.
a. Rainbows are formed by the dispersion of light in water droplets.
b. Each color from the sunlight is refracted by an amount that depends on the index of refraction of water
for that specific wavelength.
c. You will only see one color coming from each raindrop as you stand on the ground.
d. All spectral colors can be seen because each color comes from different raindrops at different angles of
elevation.
e. A rainbow is an arc that subtends an angle of 42° for the red light and 40° for violet light. The other
colors of the spectrum are found between these two angles.
f. The red light refracts out of a water droplet at a steeper angle towards the observer compared to blue or
violet, for example. This explains why the red light is observed at the top and the outer perimeter while
blue light is observed below and in the inner perimeter of the rainbow.
g. Rainbows occur when there is a collection of suspended water droplets that are capable of
concentrating light rays at angles of deviation of 40°-42° relative to their original path.
c. ACTIVITY
a. Identify whether the following objects are luminous or nonluminous.

b. Supply the correct word/phrases on the blanks to make the statements correct. Choose
the word/phrases of the correct answer on the choices given in the box below.
*electromagnetic spectrum *meters * radio waves *radio waves
* visible light *ultraviolet *gamma rays
*soft X-rays *white * hard X-rays
1. The range of energy-carrying waves arranged in order of lowest to highest frequency is known
as the electromagnetic spectrum.
2. Radio waves have the lowest frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum.
3. Visible light is the only light in the electromagnetic spectrum that can be seen by the naked
eye.
4. Cancer can be treated by means of gamma rays.
5. Combining all the colors results in white light.
6. Wavelength is measured in meters.
7. Radio waves are commonly used in transmitting or receiving signals
through cellular phones.
8. Next from the infrared and visible light in the electromagnetic spectrum
is the ultraviolet light.
9. X-rays with high photon energies from about 100 electron volts up to
10 000 electron volts per one photon are called soft X-rays.
10. X-rays with higher energy than soft X-rays are called hard X-rays.

IV. EVALUATION
1. Which electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength?
radio waves
microwaves
infrared
ultraviolet
2. Which electromagnetic wave has the highest energy?
gamma rays
X-rays
ultraviolet
visible light
3. Which component of the electromagnetic spectrum
can penetrate flesh but not dense materials such as
bones?
X-rays
gamma rays
infrared
microwaves
4. What happens to the frequency as the wavelength increases?
It decreases.
 It increases.
It is halved.
It remains the same.
5. Which of the following components of the electromagnetic spectrum is used to kill and
damage cancerous cells?
gamma rays
microwaves
visible light
radio waves
6. Which electromagnetic waves are used in communications and broadcasting?
radio waves
microwaves
ultraviolet
iInfrared
7. When a laser pen shines through a prism, a spectrum of colors will be observed on the
other side of the prism. False
8. The dispersion of light is the bending of light. False
9. Red light bends the most compared to blue light. False
10. The spectrum of colors in a rainbow is composed of red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo, and violet. True
11. Rainbows are formed sunlight are dispersed as passes through water droplets in the
atmosphere. True
12. During dispersion of light, blue light bends the most among other spectral colors. false
13. An observer only sees one light color coming from a raindrop during the formation of a
rainbow. False
14. A monochromatic light experiences dispersion when it enters a glass prism. True
V. ASIGNMENT
Defining Heat

During an extreme exercise such as a marathon run, the body’s core temperature can reach up to
107 °F. Such high temperatures may pose a danger to the body through viral or bacterial
infections or tumors if not addressed immediately. Convert the given temperature to degree
Celsius.

Learners’ Level of Achievement or Performance:

St. Uriel:
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Prepared by: JUSTINE C. GANAB

SCIENCE TEACHER