Big Ideas

Light can be characterized as a wave and can be manipulated in a predictable way with lenses and mirrors.

Dateeriqe  Topic                                                                Resources / Homework / Practice
Dec 2 Introduction to Optics

see google classroom – Note 1

textbook page 398-399 #1-8.

blind spot test

Dec 3 Limits of Light Video (the Electromagnetic Spectrum)

Limits of Light Video Questions

Answers

Dec 5 The Nature of Light see google classroom – Note 1
Dec 6 Introduction to Colour Theory Google Drawing Activity (see google classroom)
Dec 9

Colour Theory Completion

Introduction to Reflection

Additive vs Subtractive Colour Theory

see google classroom – Note 2

Dec 10 Reflection Activity text  book – read pages 411-413
Dec 11 Creating Images in Plane Mirrors see google classroom – Note 3
Dec 12

Quiz – Light and Reflection

Introduction to Curved Mirrors

 

see google classroom – Note 4

Dec 13 Image Formation in Concave Mirrors see google classroom – Note 5
Dec 16 Image Formation in Convex Mirrors

see google classroom – Note 6

Curved Mirrors Handouts – Completed

Dec 17

Mr Marlow at Hockey Tournament

“Mid Unit Review”

get handout in class

Mid Unit Review Answers

Dec 19

Mr Marlow at Hockey Tournament

Movie “The Prestige”

Dec 20 The “mirror equations”

see google classroom – Note 7

Note 7 – Completed

Christmas Break
Jan 6 Practice with the mirror equations. Gizmo Activity – class code 58683TVQHW
Jan 7 Refraction

see google classroom – Note 8

PHET Simulation

Jan 8 Converging and Diverging Lenses

see google classroom – Note 9

 

Jan 9 Ray Tracing for Lenses Image Formation in Lenses Handout 
Jan 10 Using the Lens Equations Optics Bench Simulation
Jan 13 Practice – Ray Tracing and Using the Equations

Lens and Mirror Equations Practice

Answers

Jan 14 Human Vision

see google classroom – Note 10

Note 10 Completed

handout – Image Formation in Eyeballs

Jan 15 Optics Review

OPTICS REVIEW

Review Practice Multiple Choice

Review – Short Answer Part 1

Answers to Part 1 

Review – Short Answer Part 2

Answers to Part 2

Jan 16 Optics Unit Test
tbd Eye Dissection Lab