Weekly Plan 周计划

Topic 主题: The Science behind mirrors

Circle Time: Activity 1 Name 活动名称： Activity 2 Name 活动名称： Understanding Activity 3 Name 活 动 名 称 ： Additional ideas, etc:
How do mirrors work?
reflection Fun House mirrors

Learning Learning intention 教学目标：How do Learning intention 教 学 目 标 ： What

mirrors work? reflection is? Learning intention 教学目标: Project - Reflection art
intention How do fun house mirrors work?
-anything with a smooth surface that
When rays of light coming from an object (your
Focus ： The reflects almost all of the light that hits it The way that fun house mirrors
smiling face, for example) strike the
work is by being moulded into
science behind — with only very little smooth surface of a mirror, they bounce back
light absorbed or scattered — can be different shapes. Typically, there
at the same angle. Your eyes see these
mirrors a mirror. The key factor is are two types of fun house
reflected rays as a mirror image.
a smooth surface, because rough mirrors: Concave – The mirror is
The mirror image is reversed, which you can
surfaces scatter light instead of curved or bulged outwards,
Daily Song 歌 easily see if you stand in front of a mirror with
reflecting it. making your reflection appear
a shirt with words on it. The words on the shirt
曲：I look into short and fat. Convex – The
appear backwards in the mirror
mirror is curved or bulged
the mirror Experiment: inwards, making you reflection
Take two mirrors, some paper and pencils. appear thin and tall.
Theme Story: 1. Explore what happens with 2 mirrors facing
each other (hold one mirror in your hands),
discuss what you see.
2. Everyone writes a word on a piece of paper,
holds it in front of the mirror, observe what
 happens, discuss.
Resources required 活 动 准 备 ： videos

to watch ,different smooth surfaces to

try.
Activity process 活 动 过 程 ： Watch

videos, discuss, experiment with Experiment:

Cylindrical mirror (can) can be
different reflective object.
used to demonstrate image
Differentiation focus:个别教学重点: distortion in the curved mirror.

3. Use small mirrors to explain symmetry, look

around the classroom, try to find examples of
symmetry, go outside, find symmetry in
nature.
Resources required 活 动 准 备 ：
Resources required 活 动 准 备 ： mirrors, videos, pictures, cans.

paper, pencils, other objects to test symmetry

and angles. Activity focus:活动重点：

Understand the difference
Activity focus:活动重点： between flat, bulged and curved
Do the experiment, discuss. mirrors. Do the experiment.
Differentiation focus:个别教学重点: Differentiation focus:个别教学重
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