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Light and Shadows - Lesson 5 | Optical Devices
Light and Shadows - Lesson 5 | Optical Devices
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The Optical Devices activity can also be found within the Light and Shadows - Let's Do Science Bundle. If you are interested in purchasing this activity and more, you can check out the Light and Shadows bundle here.
Ideal for grades 4-5, in this lesson students will learn how lenses can be used to create optical devices with different functions by examining a microscope and telescope. Students can then make their own optical devices using various lenses.
By the end of the activity students should be able to:
- Understand that light can be reflected, absorbed, and refracted
- Define reflection, refraction and absorption of light
- Understand how light travels through different mediums
- Use and describe various optical devices
Additional resources included with the activity plan:
- Background information
- Instructions
- Student worksheet
- Small eye chart (1 per group)
- Large eye chart (1 per group)
Additional resources required:
- Microscope (1 per group)
- Telescope (1 per group)
- Plano-concave lenses - concave on one side, flat on the other side (1 per group)
- 2 biconvex lenses - convex on both sides (Per group)
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