Challenge students to use sunlight to provide the distinct shadows they need. Have students present and explain their models to the class. This is a series of suggestions for research about people who have influenced the study of optics, people who have invented instruments that have extended the study of optics, or people that have influenced the process of scientific discovery. Provided here are different ways of looking at science, discovery, and invention that could be used as the basis for research projects in your classroom. Reports, public presentations, poster sessions, computer programs, debates, skits, role-plays, and models, are appropriate ways to present student work.
Students investigate making and using pinhole cameras.
Suggestions for ways to investigate the history of cameras and photography in are also provided. A brief history of how lenses are used in lighthouses. There are also several suggestions on how to link the study of lighthouses with science, art, math and language arts. Information on how various optical instruments work. Included are discussions of binoculars, periscopes and kaleidoscopes.