Teaching overview
Learning points
- Artificial light from sources like homes and streetlamps can cause light pollution.
- Light pollution can obscure our view of the stars, disrupt sleep, and harm nocturnal animals.
- International Dark Sky Week promotes ways to limit light pollution, like fitting outdoor lights with motion sensors so they don’t have to be left on all night.
Curriculum keywords
- light pollution
- nocturnal
- artificial light
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