Michigan Technological University
Giant Mirrors
Did you know some retailers use curved mirrors in their fitting rooms to make customers look thinner? Pupils view themselves in convex and concave mirrors to understand the difference. The resource includes big ideas for multiple age...
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Reflection of Light and Mirrors
Young scholars address common misconceptions concerning reflection, light and mirrors. They investigate light reflection in mirrors and determine how light is transferred to the eye. In addition, they make predictions and then test them...
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Lenses and Telescopes
Learners examine telescope construction. For this telescope lesson, students examine the lenses used in telescopes by exploring with convex and concave lenses.
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Comets and Meteors
Students construct a model of a comet nucleus using dry ice. They add other materials and describe the features. They complete related exercises on an Internet Web site.
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Physics Midterm Exam #3 - Electromagnetic Radiation
True-false and multiple-choice questions are posed in Part A of this exam, covering the topic of electromagnetic radiation. In Part B, problems relating to refraction must be solved. This is a well-rounded exam that will help you...
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Kids/Blocks/Learning
Help develop graphing skills in your young learners.. They create a picture graph, represent 1:1 correspondence, represent same and different, and draw conclusions. They write an experience story about the conclusions drawn from the...
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Where Did That Curly Hair Come From?
Students pronounce (as best as they can) the scientific term used in explaining heredity. They study the meaning and/or significance of these genetic terms and use these words in sentences relating to the information taught in the unit.
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From Future Flight to Past Flight
Students complete a set of CD-ROM's to introduce them to the flight program at NASA. In groups, they research a topic related to flight and put their information on a CD-ROM. To end the lesson, they share their material with other...
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Breaking News English: New 3D Pictures of Titanic Released
In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, complete warm-up activities, then a wide variety of before, during, after and homework activities. Answers are included.
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Unifying Unlike Denominators
Pupils play roll of fictional radio disk jockeys. They allocate their daily program time into fractional time slots for the playing of specified catagories of music and commercial advertisements.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Ray Model of Light: Image Characteristics
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students learn about real and virtual images.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Geometric Optics
This interactive unit will help students to understand the basics of geometric optics. Learn what happens when light strikes the boundary between two media as well as the difference between a real and virtual image? Also explore the law...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Image Formation for Plane Mirrors
Scroll down to Lesson 2 for a tutorial on image formation in plane mirrors. The tutorial from Glenbrook South High School provides lessons on why and how an image is formed, image characteristics for plane mirrors, ray diagrams, plus more.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Mirrors in Imaging
A discussion from Georgia State University of different types of mirrors and the images which they create. Discusses different instruments which use mirrors to produce images.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Real Virtual: Representing Architectural Time and Space
An extensive collection of resources designed to aid the teaching of architectural history. An introduction to the period of architecture accompanies images. Viewers can manipulate the images to achieve a panoramic view or close-up of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Mirrors
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How a mirror forms images and how to distinguish between real and virtual images, and the different types of mirrors and the images they produce.
Other
University of Wyoming: Make Learning Real: Virtual Skeleton
Collection of images of bones in the human skeleton, captured with QuickTime VR, can be rotated and viewed from different angles.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Lesson 3: Concave Mirrors
Lesson 3 of this tutorial on refraction is on concave mirrors. Content that is covered includes the anatomy of curved mirrors, reflection of light and image formation, ray diagrams, image characteristics for concave mirrors, plus more.
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.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Ray Diagrams for Mirrors
Provides a discussion of curved mirrors and ray diagrams. Shows and explains the process of drawing a ray diagram to determine the image location, size, and orientation.
Other
Scissor Crafts: Decorate a Virtual Ukrainian Pysanky Easter Egg
Practice decorating a virtual Easter egg in the Pysanky tradition before attempting a real one.
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The Edinburgh Virtual Environment Center
The Edinburgh Virtual Environment Center's philosophy deals with capturing, modeling and representation of 3D real world objects and domains. Explore this and more at this site.
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The Edinburgh Virtual Environment Center
The Edinburgh Virtual Environment Center's philosophy deals with capturing, modeling and representation of 3D real world objects and domains. Explore this and more at this site.
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University of Montana: Curved Mirrors
This calculus tutorial with curved mirrors includes narrative and video presentations as well as other interactive tools.