(#17) Light
Light is magic unless you can see through the illusions. If you understand its particle and wave nature - how it reflects off mirrors and refracts through water, how it magnifies and shrinks whole worlds through lenses and pinholes and turns them upside down, how it adds and subtracts color and splits itself into rainbows, then, better than magic, light becomes a predictable, trusted friend. Traditional lab equipment - optical benches, ray tables, prisms, curved lenses and mirrors - normally costs big bucks. But Light achieves even better results using little more than 2 ordinary hand lenses. Throw in an extra penny-sized lens, and your students will even build microscopes and telescopes!
(#17) LIGHT is part of our Self-Directing Task Card Series. It is an 88 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
INTRODUCTION
* A TOPS Model for Effective Science Teaching * Getting Ready * Gathering
Materials * Sequencing Task Cards * Long Range Objectives * Review / Test
Questions
TEACHING NOTES (36 lessons)
* Light as Particles * Pinhole Viewer (1) * Pinhole Viewer (2) * Shadow
Disk * The Shadow is Fuzzy! * Solar Eclipse * Reflection * Line Up (1) *
Line Up (2) * Up and Down? * Funny Faces * Virtual Reality * Light as
Waves * Refraction (1) * Refraction (2) * Refraction (3) * Where's the
Penny? * Water Lens * Ray Play * The Color Spectrum * Addition and
Subtraction * Focal Length (1) * Focal Length (2) * Ray Rules * Virtual
Images * Real Images * Flip-Flop * Lenses in Combination (1) * Lenses in
Combination (2) * Where Is the Focus? (1) * Where Is the Focus? (2) *
Three Magnified Views * Reverse Images * Symmetry * Curved Mirrors (1) *
Curved Mirrors (2)
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 36 Open-Ended Task Cards * protractor * metric ruler * object arrows
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(#17) LIGHT requires few specialty items other than pocket mirrors, blue and yellow cellophane, penny-sized convex lenses and hand lenses with straight rigid handles. You'll need at least 2 of these hand lenses per lab group which can be purchase direct from TOPS (see below). Gather these and other simple materials, photocopy the 36 task cards, and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 6-11
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1991
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-87-8
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#17 Light @ $16.00
#104 hand lenses
(3X) @ $1.25 each
