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- Title
Exploring Magnifiers.
- Abstract
The article presents an instructional guide in introducing the hand lens or magnifier to students and exploring its properties. Materials for the lesson include large columnar clear container, towels, a variety of magnifiers, and interesting objects to look at using magnifiers, such as feathers, leaves, tree bark, hair and cloth. Teaching procedure is discussed. An activity that aims to introduce the idea of magnification is to be presented to students. Have students repeat the activity themselves. Next is to provide a variety of magnifiers and a set of interesting objects, and have the students practice using magnifiers to examine the details of the objects. The author stated that a teacher should ask open-ended questions about the magnifiers to encourage thoughtful examination of the magnifiers.
- Subjects
MAGNIFYING glasses; SCIENTIFIC apparatus &; instruments; SCIENTIFIC observation; TEACHING methods; SCIENTIFIC experimentation; SCIENCE education; STUDENTS
- Publication
Science & Children, 2008, Vol 45, Issue 6, p19
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Science Experiment