Make Your Own Bird in a Cage Illusion - Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for
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Make Your Own Bird in a Cage Illusion - Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers
This is an Exploratorium teacher professional development course taught by Teacher Institute staff, open to any science teacher (particularly middle or high school level) and science enthusiast. This is a hands-on workshop that explores topics and strategies teachers can use to help their students become active investigators of light.
Watch a preview video (copy and paste this link into your browser): • Exploring Light: Online Course Preview
There are four weeks of course content, which require 2-4 hours per week. Each module builds upon the previous one, so we strongly suggest you follow the sequence we've outlined rather than skip ahead or do the course in less time. The course is designed to give you an opportunity to learn and share with others, not test what you know. There are weekly activity and reflection assignments, but these will not be graded. To receive credit for this course, you will need to complete the peer-reviewed final assignment.
As a participant, you will:
Watch videos that demonstrate natural phenomena and the Exploratorium's approach to teaching and learning
Conduct personal investigations by engaging in hands-on activities based in those phenomena
Reflect and share your experience doing activities
Discuss and identify challenges and opportunities for teaching
Devise a lesson of your own based on one or more of the activities
Each week, we'll look at a different light-related topic: We will start by examining human visual perception, then take a brief historical tour of our evolving scientific understanding. We’ll also look at optics and optical instruments and finish by looking at the wave nature of light.
To get the most out of this experience, you'll have to try out some activities! In return, you'll get lots of valuable teaching resources, an in-depth understanding of the subject matter, and useful tips and techniques for the classroom.
NOTE: This is a hands-on workshop, so you will need to buy or find materials. All of the materials required are inexpensive and should be easy to obtain, and we welcome substitutions! A separate list of materials is available for each activity.
Just an excellent course... made me love optics...the real perspectives of light,Wonderful course. I had a great experience. It was fun too. Highly recommended.
We don't just see with our eyes; our brain plays a big role in determining what we see. A huge percentage of the human brain is devoted to processing visual information, but we still can't make sense of everything going on around us, so we rely on certain shortcuts or tricks. In other words, your brain makes things up!br/br/This week, we're going to explore a few interesting visual shortcuts and some of the technologies that have been invented to take advantage of them.br/br/Your assignment is to watch the videos below, try some activities at home, and share your experience in the discussion forums.ulliCollect data about your a href=http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/p... vision/a and compare with your classmates/liliShow off your afterimage designs for a href=http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/b... in a Cage/a/liliTake pictures of your experiments with a href=http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/b... Shadows/a/li/ulWe can't wait to see what you come up with!
Make Your Own Bird in a Cage Illusion - Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers
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