How is light reflected?
How are lenses or a magnifying glass useful?
Click on the Georgia Science textbook to the right. Read (p. 170-171) about what light is, how light travels and how it can be blocked. Find an expert from the Reflecting Light Lab and have them help you answer the following questions:
Be sure to write down the responses using complete sentences with appropriate capitalization. Keep your answers in your Science Folder.
Click on the Georgia Science textbook to the right. Read (p. 170-171) about what light is, how light travels and how it can be blocked. Find an expert from the Reflecting Light Lab and have them help you answer the following questions:
- Does light travel in a curved path or in a straight line after striking a mirror?
- How did the light's path change when black paper was held up in front of the mirror?
- What other materials behave like a mirror?
Be sure to write down the responses using complete sentences with appropriate capitalization. Keep your answers in your Science Folder.
How does your eye work and how are you able to see objects?
Open the link of the image to the right and click on the Visual System. Listen and read along to learn about the parts of your eye, how your eye works and how you are able to see.
Get an illustration of the eye from your teacher and do the following:
Now you are ready to make a reminder in your Light Portfolio of what reflects light and what lenses refract light. You will need to get the document, below, from your teacher. You will also need a piece of aluminum foil.
Open the link of the image to the right and click on the Visual System. Listen and read along to learn about the parts of your eye, how your eye works and how you are able to see.
Get an illustration of the eye from your teacher and do the following:
- Label the parts of the eye.
- Draw an upside down image on the back of the eye, on the retina.
- Draw the image right-side up behind the optic nerve.
Now you are ready to make a reminder in your Light Portfolio of what reflects light and what lenses refract light. You will need to get the document, below, from your teacher. You will also need a piece of aluminum foil.