Curated OER
Microscopes Online
In this microscopes worksheet, students access a website to complete questions about the early compound microscopes and the scientist involved in the development. This worksheet has 1 graphic organizer, 7 fill in the blank, and 10 short...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Magnifying Glass
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the type, size, location, and orientation of the image that forms when a thin lens is used to view an object using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnify It
In this lesson plan, learners will view their finger from various viewing distances to discover that their visual field is limited and a magnifying glass is a tool that can help make something look bigger. Students will record what they...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: A Magnifying Discovery
Have you ever looked through a magnifying lens? Why do things look bigger when you look at them through the magnifying lens? Even though the object appears to get larger, it really stays the same size. Each lens has its own unique power...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Magnifying Max
This site has the view through Max's magnifying glass. The ants seem to be walking past him in a pattern, can you help him predict how many ants are coming next? Teachers will like the teacher's guide, activity sheet, and extra challenges.
Curated OER
Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary Online: Magnifying Glass
Illustration of a magnifying glass.
Curated OER
Beacon Learning Center: Magnifying Glass
A cartoon image of a yellow magnifying glass and a piece of paper with black and red writing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Thin Lens Sign Conventions
Have you ever wondered why some people need glasses and others don't? It's because of the way light is focused by the lens in your eye. This lens, like magnifying glasses, eyeglasses, and contact lenses, is considered a thin lens.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Life in the City
Biodiversity can be found in many places, including city parks. At this OLogy learning game site, players use a magnifying glass to find organisms that live there and also learn something about how each organism relates to others nearby.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Master Drawings
The purpose of this lesson plan is to introduce you to the pleasure of looking at master drawings. Through the presentation of large-scale details, videos and close-up images simulate the experience of looking at a drawing with a...
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: El Codigo De Galileo
Decipher Galileo's code and read about his biography. Instructions are also given on how to construct a magnifying glass.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: A Soluble Separation Solution
Have you ever mixed together salt and pepper? Isn't it fun to see how all of those tiny grains of salt and pepper mix together. But what if you had to separate them out again? Do you have nightmares of tiny tweezers, a magnifying glass,...
Other
Louvre Museum: A Closer Look at the Seated Scribe
Take a closer look at a work of Egyptian sculpture wherein you can see details of the work through a virtual magnifying glass. Accompanying commentaries and animations provide historical and artistic analysis. Useful in-context tools...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stations of Light
Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent mediums. While learning how a...
Inner Body
Innerbody: Muscular System
At this site, students can interact with the muscular system of the human body. Click on a region of the body or the name of a muscle, and zoom in to examine it. Outlines and magnifying glasses appear and when you click on them, you see...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Be a Detective Is It a Letter or a Word?
In this instructional activity, students will distinguish between words and letters. Students will look at each letter or word with an imitation magnifying glass to help them "see" letters and words more closely.
Tate
Tate Online: Case of the Mysterious Object
A clever and compelling interactive introduction to art appreciation and visual literacy. Parent and child or older child/younger child can pair up to solve an art gallery mystery. The object of this activity is to answer questions about...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Thesis, Purpose, Textual Elements in Informational Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea or thesis and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Water Sphere Lens
A discussion of how to make a magnifying lens exhibit using a water-filled flask and a light bulb. Consists of assembly instructions and a "To do and notice" section. Great for a teacher demonstration or a student project.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Watch Tv Upside Down
An experiment to invert a television image using a magnifying lens. Accompanied by an explanation of what's happening.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Giant Lens
A discussion of how to make a refraction exhibit using a Fresnel lens. Consists of assembly instructions and a "To do and notice" section.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Thin Lens Equation
This is an informative site from Georgia State University. It gives a discussion of the thin lens equation and an illustration of its use in determining the image distance based upon the object distance and the focal length.
Language Guide
Language Guide: El Negocio
These interactive vocabulary words include things you would find in the office and typical office greetings. Most words are nouns, although some verbs are included.