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title: "How does light travel?"
url: "https://www.waterside.stoke.sch.uk/blog/2024-12-05-07-32-00-how-does-light-travel"
school: "Waterside Primary School"
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# How does light travel?

  ![Image of How does light travel?](https://files.schudio.com/waterside-primary-school/images/blog/IMG_5847.jpeg)  5 December 2024   [Charlotte Selman](https://www.waterside.stoke.sch.uk/blog/author/Cselman)

This week in Science, we conducted an investigation to explore how light travels. We proved that light does in fact travel in straight lines and becomes blocked by opaque objects. Y6 Whales worked really hard in this lesson. Well done!

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