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1RE designs reflective clothing

10 Dec 2013

In our science lessons we have been thinking about light. Today we learnt about things that reflect light.

We thought about whether a metal spoon is a light source. Some of us thought it was because it is shiny. We put our metal spoon in our dark box to test if we could see it - we couldn't! We needed to use a torch. This taught us that a metal spoon is not a light source but reflects light.

We then thought about what we could do to clothes to make them more visible in the dark and had a competition to design the most reflective winter clothing using a range of shiny and non-shiny materials...