Light (TOPS Learning Systems, 36 Task Card Activities, Task Card Series, Grades 6-11)

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! The book is 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 arrowsAuthor: Ron Marson, Illustrated by Peg MarsonSubject Area: PhysicsLevel: Grades 6-11Format: 88 pages, PaperbackPublisher: TOPS Learning Systems (1991)ISBN: 0-941008-87-8