PhET Teacher Ideas and Activities: Images from Convex Lenses

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written by Trish Loeblein

This is an inquiry-based module created specifically for use with the PhET simulation Geometric Optics. It includes a lesson plan for teaching about convex lenses, step-by-step student directions, and a set of Power Point "clicker" questions for use as warm-up questions or informal assessment.

This resource is part of a larger collection of interactive Java simulations for students of physics, developed by the Physics Education Technology project at the University of Colorado.

Please note that this resource requires Flash.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2852

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Practices - Active Learning = Inquiry Learning Optics - Geometrical Optics = Thin Lens	- High School - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Lesson/Lesson Plan = Problem/Problem Set = Student Guide - Assessment Material - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Educators - Learners	- text/html - application/ms-powerpoint - application/pdf	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2006 PHET and University of Colorado
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Keywords:: Light, Refraction, Vision, clicker questions, convergent lens, convex lens, experiment simulation, image, interactive multimedia, lens, lesson plan, marginal ray, optics, optics lesson, principal ray, ray diagrams, real image, screen, virtual image
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created May 20, 2009 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: February 22, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 11, 2008
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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