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Bill Nye Light Optics - 20-21 Student Sheet

The document outlines a lesson plan centered on the video 'Bill Nye: Light Optics,' which explores the properties of light, including reflection, refraction, and absorption. It includes pre-video questions to assess prior knowledge, during-video questions for engagement, and a quick quiz to reinforce learning. Key concepts discussed include the behavior of light, types of mirrors, and the application of fiber optics in surgery.

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Bill Nye Light Optics - 20-21 Student Sheet

The document outlines a lesson plan centered on the video 'Bill Nye: Light Optics,' which explores the properties of light, including reflection, refraction, and absorption. It includes pre-video questions to assess prior knowledge, during-video questions for engagement, and a quick quiz to reinforce learning. Key concepts discussed include the behavior of light, types of mirrors, and the application of fiber optics in surgery.

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Bill Nye: Light Optics

Video Link: [Link]

Warm Up: Before-Video Questions


Do your best on these questions but don’t look up the answers. This is my way of learning what you already know.
Please answer in full sentences.

1. What do you already know about light?


It is emitted in waves, and some light we can see while other light we cannot.

2. What is light?
Waves.

3. How does light from the sun get to your eye?


It reflects off of the sun and reaches our eye.

Bill Nye: Light Optics (During-Video Questions)


Fill these responses out as you watch the video.

1. Light can bounce, light can be bent and light can be absorbed.
2. Eyeglasses and microscopes work because of Refraction.
3. Scientists like to think that light travels in waves.
4. What kind of light does your remote control for your television use?
Infrared light
5. The way a mirror is curved affects the way it bends light
6. Draw a diagram of a CONCAVE mirror.
7. Things look ____________ in a concave mirror.

8. Draw a diagram of a CONVEX mirror.


9. Things look ___________ in a convex mirror.

10. What shape is your eye? Convex


11. Why do you look upside down when looking inside a spoon? Because the
light is bending.
12. Why can’t Bill Nye pick up the can? Because the light bending in the water
makes it look like the “grabber-arm of science” is in a slightly different
position than the light.
13. What medical procedure uses fiber optics? Surgery
14. What is Internal Reflection? Reflection inside an object

Bill Nye: After-Video Quick Quiz


Take the following quiz on information presented in the video.
T T/F We see objects because light is reflected from them.
F T/F When light bounces straight off a surface, we say that it is refracted.
T T/F When light is bent, it changes direction.
T T/F Light travels in waves.
T T/F When light waves slow down, they change direction.
F T/F Convex lenses make things look smaller and farther away.
T T/F Mirror images are formed by light from the object’s right side reflecting from the right side of
the mirror and light from the object’s left side reflecting from the left side of the mirror.
B Which of the following is NOT a true statement regarding light? Light can be...
a. Absorbed b. abstracted c. bent d. reflected
D Which of the following refract light?
b. Eyeglasses b. Microscopes c. Telescopes d. All of the above

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