Activity: Mirrors & Lenses

Optical Instruments

• • Eyeglasses

  • Binoculars

  • Telescopes

  • Microscopes

  • Cameras

  • Optical Tweezers

  • Think of something different? Let me know!

Binoculars

• PBS: How light passes through the lenses and prisms of binoculars

• Explain that stuff: How do binoculars work?

Telescopes

• Brainpop: Telescopes

• NASA Space Place: How telescopes ‘see’

• BBC: How do telescopes let us see so far in space?