Design an experiment to investigate how different surfaces determine if light is reflected, refracted, or absorbed 0407.10.2

Links verified 10/25/2010

1. Broken Pencil - animation and explanation of the science behind an interesting demonstration
2. Image Formation for Plane Mirrors - good animation showing where an image is formed in a mirror
3. Law of Reflection - good animation from Multimedia Physics Studio
4. Lenses - an interactive optics bench that allows students to investigate the effects of object location on the characteristics of an image - from Shockwave Physics Studios
5. Let There Be Light - a lesson plan designed for 4th grade science [2 hour duration suggested]
6. Ray Optics: Light Refraction - several drawings and a good image are used to explain light refraction
7. Reflection and Refraction of Light Waves - This applet is a sort of tutorial which explains the reflection and the refraction of waves by the principle of Huygens
8. Reflection and the Ray Model of Light - chapter outline of a set of explanations about reflection - four lessons, each with multiple parts
9. Refraction - investigate the refraction and reflection of light at a boundary with this activity from Shockwave Physics Studios
10. Refraction and the Ray Model of Light - chapter outline of a set of explanations about refraction - six lessons, each with multiple parts

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