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Day 1:
- Day 1 – Pinhole Camera
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 1 – Light
- Complete Student Notes
Day 2:
- Review – Lesson 1 – Light
- Day 1 – Pinhole Camera
- HW
- Watch – Lesson 2 – Lasers, Absorption, and Transmission
- Complete Student Notes
Day 3:
- Review – Lesson 2 – Lasers, Absorption, and Transmission
- Laser demonstration reiterate ideas about lasers from PP compared with light from a ray box
- Use a flashlight to show light rays in all directions (1/4πd2) and Laser
- Laser Maze
- I create small groups and give each group a laser and a mirror for each member. I then place a target on the wall and instruct them to manually hold the mirrors so that the laser beam reflects off each one and hits the target on the wall.
- Day 2 – Pinhole Camera
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 3 – The Production of Light
- Complete Student Notes
Day 4:
- Lab Station Activity – Light Optics and the Production of Light
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 4 – Ray Diagrams, Reflection and Plane Mirrors
- Complete Student Notes
Day 5:
- Day 3 – Pinhole Camera
- Start Building
Day 6:
- Day 4 – Pinhole Camera (½ day)
- Last Day – Everything needs to be done by today
Day 7:
- Quiz Lesson 1-5 – 2 DAYS
- HW:
- Complete your pinhole camera project – due next day
- Upload your video and a picture of your answers to the Day 3 questions to the submission box
- Watch – Lesson 5 – Reflection in Curved Mirrors
- Complete Student Notes
- Complete your pinhole camera project – due next day
Day 8:
- Quiz Lesson 1-5 NEXT DAY
- Review Pinhole Camera videos
- Review – Lesson 5 – Reflection in Curved Mirrors
- Concave Mirror Demonstration
- I usually just get some concave mirrors and show the students firsthand the images they produce. This would also be a good time for a lab if you have one available.
- HW:
- Mirrors Ray Diagram Practice – Walkthrough video included
Day 9:
- Quiz Lesson 1-5
- Curved Mirrors Practice Problems
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 6 – Refraction – Part 1
- Watch – Lesson 6 – Refraction – Part 2
- Complete Student Notes
Day 10:
- Review – Lesson 6 – Refraction
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 7 – Snell’s Law
- Complete Student Notes
Day 11:
- Review – Lesson 7 – Snell’s Law
- Snell’s Law Worksheet
- HW:
- Snell’s Law Worksheet
Day 12:
- Snell’s Law Lab
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 8 – Lenses and Focal Point
- Complete Student Notes
Day 13:
- Review – Lesson 8 – Lenses and Focal Point
- Student Activity – Lenses
1) Draw rays for both lenses
2) Find focal point
3) Measure focal length
4) Repeat with converging lens at a different distance from ray box
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 9 – Lenses – Ray Diagrams
- Complete Student Notes
Day 14:
- Review – Lesson 9 – Lenses – Ray Diagrams
- Ray Diagram Lenses Worksheet
- HW:
- Any unfinished work from today
- Watch – Lesson 10 – Thin Lens Equation and Magnification
- Complete Student Notes
Day 15:
- Review – Lesson 10 – Thin Lens Equation and Magnification
- Thin Lens and Magnification Worksheet
- HW:
- Thin Lens and Magnification Worksheet
Day 16:
- Optics Unit Review
- This would be a good place to assign textbook questions or other review sheets.
- HW:
- Watch – Lesson 11 – The Eye
- Complete Student Notes
- The Blindspot Activity is in this folder too. For the activity, it’s important to follow the instructions exactly for it to work.
Day 17:
- Review – Lesson 11 – The Eye
- Review Day
- Optics – Behaviour of Light Review
Day 18:
- Optics Test