Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plane Mirrors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the law of reflection by using mirrors. For this physics lesson, students operate a robot using IR controllers. They explain the path of light as it reflects through a surface.
Activity
Exploratorium

Vocal Visualizer

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Make sound visible with an activity that provides directions for how to build a vocal visualizer meant to create light patterns. Making noise into the visualizer causes a mirror to vibrate, reflecting a laser beam, and creating...
Activity
International Technology Education Association

Dampen That Drift!

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
The spacecraft is drifting too far off course! Two games help explain how a spacecraft can use its thrusters to maintain its position. The games have pupils be the components of vectors in order to create and counteract the...