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Evening Practice at the Bocce Court

Use city park bocce court observations to predict when a ball and a battery light wand can be seen.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-PS4-2

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  • 1 NGSS standard
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  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 1
Subject
Science
Question types
Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students use observations to predict when a ball can be seen with daylight or lamp light.
  • Students distinguish an object that gives off light from an object with light shining on it.
  • Students explain a prediction about seeing objects using evidence from light checks.

How to use

Read the notes and questions aloud. Pause before each prediction so students can name the light that would let them see the object.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

1-PS4-2

Explain that objects can be seen only when light shines on them or when they give off their own light.

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Evening Practice at the Bocce Court

Use light clues to predict what players will see.

Before Practice

Listen to the checks. Use the notes to answer.

Checking a Bocce Ball

Imani plays bocce, a ball game, at a city park. Before evening practice, an adult helps her check a plain ball in the equipment booth. The door is shut. A window has a thick shade. With the shade shut and the battery lamp off, no light enters.

The ball and Imani stay in the same places. The adult changes the light. Imani tells whether she can see the ball.

Check A: The shade is open. Daylight shines on the ball. Imani sees it.
Check B: The shade is shut. The lamp is off. She does not see it.
Check C: The shade is shut. The lamp shines on the ball. She sees it.

1.
What is alike in Checks A and C?
  • A. The window shade is open.
  • B. Light reaches the ball.
  • C. The ball gives off light.
  • D. The battery lamp is off.
2.
After Check C, the adult turns off the lamp. The shade stays shut. What will happen?
  • A. The ball will glow from the earlier light.
  • B. The ball will be seen because it is round.
  • C. The ball will become brighter in the dark.
  • D. The ball will not be seen without light.

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