Strand C: Matter and Energy

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At a glance

Curriculum expectations

C1 — assess the impacts on society and the environment of technological innovations related to light and sound
C2 — demonstrate an understanding of light and sound as forms of energy that have specific characteristics and properties

Lessons

How light travelsWhere light comes from and how it behaves: it travels in a straight path and can be reflected (C2.1, C2.3).
How we seeThe eye and the camera as organs and devices that make use of the properties of light (C2.8).

Brief

Strand C of the Grade 4 Science and Technology course: Matter and Energy, which is about light and sound. It has two lessons, both on light: how it travels and how we see. ¹

Sources

Ontario Ministry of Education, The Ontario Curriculum: Science and Technology, Grades 1–8 (2022)

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islam.museum contributors. “Strand C: Matter and Energy”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/course/ca-on-g4-science-c/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.

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