Name ______________________
Spring 2014
PEP Optics Unit Outline
Core Activities (Activities all students will do)
_____ Watch OPT
___x__Field Trip to the Museum of the Moving Image
__m,s_ Create Flip book from Museum
__m__ Write a reflection about the Museum Trip
__m.s_ Draw labeled diagram of human eye.
__m.s_ Read Eyes – Kids Discover Magazine.
__ m__ Watch Cow’s Eye Dissection Video.
__m,s_ Watch Bill Nye Light and Color Video and take quiz
_m,s__ Watch Bill Nye Light Optics Video
_____ Explorations/Experiments with Light: Speed of Light, Reflection, Refraction
_m,s__ Use a spectroscope and make observations about light.
_____ Oral Presentation to the class about a light or optics concept
Learn about Blindspots., Eye dominance,
_ menu?_ Read Eric Carle’s Hello Red Fox and create an original afterimage.
_____ Optics Stations (View and discuss Optical Illusions on computer and paper;
Create a Zoetrope; M is for Mirror book; 3-D Drawing Activity; Play Mirror
Game – Board game, Reflecto, Thaumotrope, Phenakistoscope)
_menu?_ Kaleidoscope Math (Angles/Symmetry/Polygons)
_menu?_ Create animation using Web Painter software
Optional Selections (Student selects one or more)-TURN THIS INTO A MENU?
_____ Create a Kaleidoscope or Tessellation.
_____ Research holograms, the Sun, artificial retina or lasers and present to group
or write encyclopedia or news article about it.
_____ Perform a shadow puppet show
_____ Watch another Chaplin movie and compare it to the Immigrant.
_____ Photography – Compare lenses and angles.
_____ Interview an Ophthalmologist, Optometrist or Optician
_____ Do a light experiment with the class. (Ms. M has some sources for you)
_____ Research an eye disease or other problem associated with eyes.
_____ Biographical Study of Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison or
other scientist, and their contribution to the study of Light.
_____ Other… ______________________________________
Resources
Media
Games
All About Light
Mirror Game
Opt – An Illusionary Tale
Facts of Light
Wallace and Grommit
Charlie Chaplin Movies
Bill Nye- Light and Color Video and Ligh tOptics Video
Texts
Eyes – Kids Discover Magazine
Dorling Kindersley’s Light Book
Kaleidoscope Math
Museum of Vision: EyeOpeners
Websites (Visit the Salem PEP Website for websites)
Outside of Class Learning
Trip to the American Museum of the Moving Image
Port Washington Public Library has Charlie Chaplin Movies
Parent Signature __________________________________
Student Signature _________________________________