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This Create a Milk Carton Camera to Observe the Eclipse! activity also includes:
- How to Make a Pinhole Camera
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Step aside, fancy glasses... it's time to create a solar eclipse viewing camera of your own using nothing more than a milk carton.
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Instructional Ideas
- Gather enough milk cartons and materials for all learners to have their own milk carton camera to view
- Take the questions from the extensions and put them into a worksheet where learners must respond to the questions using their experiment as a basis for the answers as well as researching unknowns
Classroom Considerations
- Project can be completed at home or in the classroom
- Applicable to any total solar eclipse
- Requires a half-gallon milk carton, wax paper, tape, safety pin, flashlight, and aluminum foil
- Ensure learners do not look directly at the solar eclipse for eye safety
Pros
- Provides extensions for experimenting and reflecting on the design
- Meets NGSS for upper elementary
Cons
- None