Making a Pinhole Camera

Students are introduced to the basic straight line pattern of travel that light takes. A cereal box and wax paper provide the pinhole camera that captures the light's inverted image. Shifting this pattern provides additional challenges.

Aspiring space engineers design a rocket launch platform together to explore materials. The platform needs to be lightweight so that it can be transported easily, but super strong so that it can support the weight of the rocket and its...

When earth scientists or mini meteorologists are learning about wind, they can participate in an engineering activity in which they will design and construct an anemometer. A thorough overview of different types of anemometers is...

Step aside, fancy glasses... it's time to create a solar eclipse viewing camera of your own using nothing more than a milk carton. 

Photocopy a pin-hole camera onto cardstock, then have your opticians construct it and make observations of how things appear inside. The full-color image will be upside down because the light waves cross each other as they pass through...

Students explore light.  In this light wave physics activity, students construct periscopes, kaleidoscopes, color wheels, and pinhole cameras.  Students observe and record characteristics of light demonstrated through the use of these...

Students make a pinhole camera and see the effects that light travelling in straight lines have on images.

Students discuss light and how it travels in straight lines, create pinhole cameras with cylindrical boxes and wax paper, and experiment with moving camera in different directions to see how it changes images.

Students make a pinhole camera and see the effects of light travelling in straight lines have on images.

Learners investigate how light travels. In this optic science lesson plan, students discover that light travels in a straight line through a laser pointer demonstration. Learners also study how pinhole cameras work by considering how...