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Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Lenses and Geometrical Optics HandoutOptical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Lenses and Geometrical Optics Handout
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Optical Society
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3rd - 8th
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Science
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1090L
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Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Lenses and Geometrical Optics

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Article explaining what lenses are and how they work. At the end of the article, there are links to several hands-on activities for investigating lenses.

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lenses, refraction

Additional Tags

concave reflection, convex reflection, science and lenses, science and mirrors, mirror

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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