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Becky McCoy
Target Audience:
High School Conceptual Physics Course (9th – 12th grade)
Objectives:
Students Will Be Able To:
• Identify how light travels.
• Understand how different materials affect the purpose of a lens.
• Draw basic diagrams of light traveling through lenses.
Misconception(s) Addressed:
• Light does not travel.
• Light does not bounce or reflect.
• Lenses must be whole to form images.
Aim: Discover and describe how light moves as a ray through lenses.
Necessary Preparation:
COPIES
• Royal Observatory Article
• List of international telescopes
MATERIALS
Light & Optics Unit
Becky McCoy
• Eye glasses
• Camera
• Glass bottles
• Glass bowls
• 2 Clear Plastic Cup
• Tupperware
• Magnifying Glass
• Water
• Styrofoam Balls spray painted different colors (one for each group)
• Toothpicks (10 for each group)
SET UP
• Power Point presentation and technology to present.
• Stations around the room.
• Fill one plastic cup with water.
Light & Optics Unit
Becky McCoy
Lesson Plan
Aim: To discover and describe how light moves as a ray through lenses.
Procedure:
1. Stick the toothpicks in Styrofoam ball to create a unique object.
2. At each station, look at your object through the “lens” provided.
3. Record what you observed at each station.
Questions to Ask:
• Did the color of your object change?
• Did the shape appear to change?
• Did the toothpicks ever look different?
• Was what you observed predictable, or were you surprised?
Introduce the anatomy of a lens and point out that parallel rays intersect at the focal point!
Light & Optics Unit
Becky McCoy
Extension Activity:
Allow students to combine different materials and see what their objects look like. Be sure they record
their observations.
Assessment:
• Student responses throughout activities.
• Student reasoning in exit strategy.
• Teacher awareness of student questions and discussions throughout class.
Resources:
Bill Arnet’s Astro Website: http://astro.nineplanets.org/bigeyes.html
Making Sense of Secondary Science by Rosalind Driver
UK National Maritime Museum: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-
facts/history/the-28-inch-photo-visual-refractor/*/viewPage/2
You have just been hired by Bseen, a technology company that specializes
in optical technology. You must choose a product to market, design a
proposal marketing scheme, and explain your marketing decisions.
The advertisement you design must be appropriate for one of the following:
• Magazine
• Newspaper
• Radio
• Television
√+ √ √-
Science Content Appropriate and well- Some science content, Where’s the science?
applied science content. but not thorough.
Creativity/Appeal Where can I buy it? Hmm…I might buy it I’m not buying that!
later.