ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows teacher real-world examples from the teaching and learning of light reflection. He describes how to teach pattern recognition, and how students can use that to create useful physical models that they can use to make predictions. In the first grade, students are expected to understand light reflection by making observations of and planning investigations on how light interacts with various objects. The student can then recognize a pattern that leads to a hypothesis about the reflection of light off a mirror. This is the process scientists use to come up with hypotheses that we mimics in our classrooms. Scientists develop models that can help them understand the world around them. Scientists must learn skills to make measurements. Scientists learn about how the world behaves by asking good questions, observing and recognizing patterns, developing and using models of physical behavior, and conducting experiments that can test those models.
