Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.

• Lesson Assessment
• Activity Extension: Extend the activity by adding other materials to your paper stained-glass art.
• Activity Extension: Try making Paper Stained Glass using different pattern, such as a heart, a star, or a fish .
  
• Activity: Encourage students to look for see-through, opaque, and kind-of-see-through materials in their everyday life.
  
• Books: These online books reinforce & expand students understanding of light.
  

More Fun with Paper Stained-Glass

Making paper stained-glass art is even more fun with these additional materials.

• Cut up colored cellophane (available here). Use it in place of or in addition to tissue paper to make artwork that lets more light through.
• Add opaque materials cut in interesting shapes. We like using star-shaped stickers to add dark stars to any paper stained glass project.

Ask students why adding these materials changes how their art looks.

You can also make art using a different pattern, such as a heart, a star, or a fish .

Everyday See-Through Materials

Ask students to find all the places in their lives where see-through materials let light through. Here are some examples.

• Eyeglasses, binoculars, and telescopes all have clear lenses.
• Light bulbs, headlights on cars, flashlights, traffic lights, and lanterns all have clear covers over something that’s making light.
• Bottles and jars are often see through.
• Water is clear. (If it wasn’t, how would fish see?)
• Jello is see through, just for fun.

What other examples can you find?

Online books about light

These online books are on Get Epic! For teachers, registration is free.

• Playing with Light and Shadows, by Jennifer Boothroyd, revisits the concept of transparent, translucent, and opaque.
• Sensing Light and Sound,, by Jennifer Boothroyd, shows that eyes to sense light and ears sense sound.
  
• Sending Messages with Light and Sound, by Jennifer Boothroyd, describes how people use light and sound to send messages.
• Lights Out!, by Lucille Recht Penner, is an entertaining story about a girl who counts lights at night as everyone goes to sleep. Great practice in subtraction.