🌃 Phase 1 - Anticipation
👁️ Visual + Poll
⏱ 6 minutes
Task 1 - What Disappears When We Turn On the Light?
Experience darkness before defining it as an environmental issue.
Step 1 - If you can, dim the lights in your room
For 30 seconds, don't try to do anything.
Just notice darkness.
Just notice darkness.
30
Just notice darkness.
A star-filled night sky
A brightly lit city night sky
Step 2 - What disappeared?
What disappeared between the two skies?
Step 3 - The Wonder Question
Does darkness need protecting?
Step 4 - One question about the night
My question about darkness or artificial light…
Wonder begins with a surprising gap between what we assume and what we actually notice. Let's find out when light becomes pollution.
What happens in Task 1
A 6-minute Phase 1 - Anticipation activity. Students experience 30 seconds of darkness and silence, watch a star-filled sky cross-fade into a brightly lit city sky, journal what disappeared, vote on the Wonder Question, and write one question about the night.
🎯 Learning objectives
To experience darkness before defining it as an environmental issue, and to surface prior assumptions about whether darkness is something worth protecting.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Light-sensitivity setting skips night mode and shows both images at normal brightness with a gentle fade - no flashing at any time
- Read-aloud and voice answers available; breathing indicator instead of a numeric timer
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Lab Booklet page 1 with two printed photos to reveal one after the other, vote boxes and reason lines