Prisms and Light - Reflection and Refraction on Tuesday

Oki,
Curious, clever, creative exploration ... here's some of our exploration from last week with pin hole cameras in room 104

A safe way to look at our most powerful natural light source.  The sun!

pinhole cameras

How do color filters affect light?  

Studying the optics filters on the sun.   

We appreciate our hardworking bus drivers!

 Exploring convex and concave mirrors -- a.k.a.  spoons.

Did you know that a mirror is opaque?

Exploring Reflection using flashlights and mirrors.  

Bending Light using prisms:  Bending = refraction when light moves from one substance to another.

Refraction in action -- check out the visible spectrum of colors in light.  

Frayer Model for a prism = what is it? what is it not?

 Some work in our journals from Grand Conversations - The Bridge to Terabithia

The Main Idea of any book is in the Title - finding examples in the text about connected to the theme of being brave.  

Here's a question:  what do you do with a pile of perfectly proportioned prisms?