Geometric Light and Optics Unit Plan – Dec. 2009
Day
1
Date
Tues N 24
2
Wed N 25
3
Thurs N26
4
Fri N 27
5
Mon N 30
6
Tues D 1
7
Wed D 2
8
Thurs D 3
9
Fri D 4
10
Mon D 7
11
Tues D 8
12
Wed D 9
13
Thurs D 10
14
15
16
Fri D 11
Mon D 14
Tues D 15
17
18
19
20
Wed D 16
Thurs D 17
Fri D 18
Mon J 4
21
22
23
Tues J 5
Wed J 6
Topic
Unit Intro
11.1 What is light?
11.2 How is light produced?
11.4 The Ray Model of Light
11.3 The Laser – A Special
Type of Light
11.5 Activity – Reflecting
Light off a Plane Mirror
(start) 11.6 The Laws of
Reflection
11.7 Images in Plane Mirrors
11.8 Activity - Locating
Images in a Plane Mirror
11.9 Images in Curved
Mirrors
11.10 Activity – Locating
Images in a Curved Mirrors
12.1 What is Refraction
12.2 Activity The path of
Light from Air to Acrylic
(Teacher Demo)
12.3 Activity The Refraction
of Light through Different
Media
12.4 The Index of Refraction
12.5 Total Internal
Refraction
12.6 Measuring the Critical
Angle for Various Media
(Demo)
13.1 Lenses and the
Formation of Images
13.2 Activity Locating
Images in Lenses
13.3 Images in Lenses
13.4 The Lens Equation
13.4 The Lens Equation /
Buffer
Unit Review
Unit Test
Last Day before Christmas
Application – 12.7
Phenomenon Related to
Refraction
13.5 Lens Applications
13.6 The human Eye
Details
What do you already know?
Evaluation
- finish how is light produced
-start ray model
- laser stuff if possible
Try This - Writing reflectively
Try This – Producing Images
Intro – What do you Know?
Try This – Exploring with Light
Quiz: 11.4 – 11.8
Hand in Lab 12.3
Quiz: 11.9 –
11.10
Invisibility Cloak?
Converging only
Quiz: All
refraction
Hand in lab q’s
(informal)?
Focus on converging lenses
Small problem
set?
Unit Test
Jig saw/ expert groups lesson from
book
Library Period (In class project)
Present info/ finalize?
Hand out in class
project