🔦 Phase 2 - Encounter
🧩 Interactive + check
⏱ 3 minutes
Task 3 - Put the Light Where It Is Needed
Three ways to light the same object - only one puts the light where it's actually needed.
Step 1 - Which design puts light where it's needed?
Unshielded, pointing sideways
Pointing upward
Shielded, pointing downward
Step 2 - Two quick questions
What is light pollution?
Why isn't the solution simply to switch off every outdoor light?
Now let's investigate who actually needs the night - choose your path.
What happens in Task 3
A 3-minute, ungraded Phase 2 - Encounter formative check. Students choose which of three lighting designs puts light where it is actually needed, then answer two quick questions.
🎯 Learning objectives
To distinguish necessary lighting from poorly designed or unnecessary lighting.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Tactile torch-and-shield demonstration at home; read-aloud; symbols for each design
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Lab Booklet page 2 with the three torch positions illustrated