Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the first science post ever on this blog. This post takes place in the amazing classroom run by the fantastic Ms. S. Klausen. In this unit we learn about light, optics, mirrors reflections and refractions!

We started of this unit with a work sheet about the basics of light. My partner for this was Ben. After this we watched a video about how animals use light to survive and use it for even more amazing stuff!

After we watch the video we learned about convex and concave lenses and how they alter light.

To demonstrate the power of lenses we went out side with a big concave lens and used the sun to burn a girl guides cookie box.

!!WARNING!! NO GIRL GUIDE COOKIES WERE HARMED IN THE PHOTOS YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE…. WE HAD ALREADY EATEN THE COOKIES 😀😀

We also watch this video about the biggest solar furnace in the world which is so hot that it will melt birds that fly close to it.

We then got with different partners and we worked on a BFLL which stands for Big Fat Lenses Lab. My partner for this labs was Mr. Sam Cui. For this lab we study light rays after they passed through a liquid. The liquids we used for this lab were vegetable oil, water and rubbing alcohol.

The other big thing that we did in this unit was watch a Documentary on light in Islam. Which was a video about a guy who talked about a dead guy who proved the Greeks wrong about how light works. The Greeks said that light came from the eye but he proved that light entered the eye instead. He also wrote a famous book called Kitab al-Manazir or the book of optics in English. As well most of the thing we know about light came from him.

I know I did a terrible job at explaining this so go ahead and watch the video for more information, and if you really want there is an entire series about this so feel free to watch them all if you desire.

Thank you dear reader for reading and I hope you enjoyed this post. This is everything we’ve work in in science this term.

PEACE -Emerson