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Lenses and Mirrors: Enrichment Activity

This document is an enrichment activity about lenses and mirrors. It contains questions about the shapes and focusing properties of convex and concave lenses and mirrors. Students are asked to define eye conditions like hyperopia and myopia, and identify whether a convex or concave lens is used to correct each. The activity is divided into three parts - identifying lens and mirror shapes, labeling diagrams, and defining and matching eye conditions to lenses.

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Lenses and Mirrors: Enrichment Activity

This document is an enrichment activity about lenses and mirrors. It contains questions about the shapes and focusing properties of convex and concave lenses and mirrors. Students are asked to define eye conditions like hyperopia and myopia, and identify whether a convex or concave lens is used to correct each. The activity is divided into three parts - identifying lens and mirror shapes, labeling diagrams, and defining and matching eye conditions to lenses.

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Lenses and Mirrors


Enrichment Activity
Skills: identifying, applying definitions, researching
PART A Use reference materials to answer the following questions about lenses and mirrors.
1. What is the shape of a convex lens or mirror? __________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What happens to light as it passes through a convex lens? _______________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the shape of a concave lens or mirror? _________________________________________________

4. What happens to light as it strikes a concave mirror? ___________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What happens to light as it passes through a concave lens? ______________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

PART B Label each shape as concave or convex.

1. _____________________________ 2. ____________________________

3. _____________________________ 4. ____________________________

PART C Many eye conditions are corrected by wearing eyeglasses. The


eyeglasses contain lenses to focus light as it passes into the eye. Use reference
materials to define the following eye conditions. Identify the type of lens used to
correct each condition.
1. hyperopia: _________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

2. myopia: ___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

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Answer Key
Lenses and Mirrors
Enrichment Activity
PART A
1. bulges outward; Lens is thicker in the middle than
at its edges. 2. Light rays are brought together at a
point. 3. curves inward; Lens is thinner in the
middle than at its edges. 4. Light is collected and
focused to form an image. 5.Light rays spread
apart, or diverge.
PART B
1. concave 2. convex 3. convex 4. concave
PART C
1. hyperopia: far-sightedness—eye cannot focus on
close objects; corrected with a convex lens
2. myopia: near-sightedness—light rays from distant
object are focused before reaching the eye; corrected
with concave lens

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