The Light & Optics Student Learning Guide includes self-directed readings, easy-to-follow illustrated explanations, guiding questions, inquiry-based activities, a lab investigation, key vocabulary review and assessment review questions, along with a post-test. It covers the following standards-aligned concepts: Introduction to Light; The EM Spectrum; Transmission of Light; Light & Color; Interactions with Light; Reflections & Mirrors; Refraction & Lenses; Light & the Human Eye (Vision); and Light in Technology. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other state standards.