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School News, January 9, Sag Harbor & East Hampton Town

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First-graders in Adrian Drake’s science class at Sag Harbor Elementary School have completed their light unit. Students learned about light sources including the sun and electric light, as well as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence. They experimented with transparent, translucent and opaque materials and bent light with prisms to create rainbows. Their last lesson examined shadows, the absence of light, by having a shadow puppet show. COURTESY SAG HARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT

First-graders in Adrian Drake’s science class at Sag Harbor Elementary School have completed their light unit. Students learned about light sources including the sun and electric light, as well as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence. They experimented with transparent, translucent and opaque materials and bent light with prisms to create rainbows. Their last lesson examined shadows, the absence of light, by having a shadow puppet show. COURTESY SAG HARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT

First-graders in Adrian Drake’s science class at Sag Harbor Elementary School have completed their light unit. Students learned about light sources including the sun and electric light, as well as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence. They experimented with transparent, translucent and opaque materials and bent light with prisms to create rainbows. Their last lesson examined shadows, the absence of light, by having a shadow puppet show. COURTESY SAG HARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT

First-graders in Adrian Drake’s science class at Sag Harbor Elementary School have completed their light unit. Students learned about light sources including the sun and electric light, as well as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence. They experimented with transparent, translucent and opaque materials and bent light with prisms to create rainbows. Their last lesson examined shadows, the absence of light, by having a shadow puppet show. COURTESY SAG HARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT

authorStaff Writer on Jan 6, 2025
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