Unit Outline

Day 1 - 2/21
Review Unit 1 Test
Veritasium Video: The Original Double Slit Experiment
Notes, Slides 1-4:  light terms, light interactions
Lab – Intensity vs. Distance
PLQ   

Day 2 - 2/22
Veritasium Video:  Single Photon Interference
Notes, Slides 5-7: light properties, electromagnetic spectrum
Lab – Polarization Activity
Notes, Slides 8-9: polarization
Demo: spring with meter sticks
Demo: polarizing squares
Worksheet: Practice Sheet 1 – Visible Light, Wavelength & Frequency (for website: EM Spectrum & Wave Equation)    

Day 3 - 2/23
IPOD # 7 – EM spectrum (color), wave equation
Worksheet:  Light & Color – worksheet packet (pages 1-2)
Worksheet: Light & Color - worksheet packet (page 3)
Ted Ed Video: What is Color?, Colm Kelleher
PhET Simulation – Color Vision Simulation

Day 4 - 2/24
Review PhET - Color Vision Simulation
Notes, Slide 10-12:  Color Addition
Worksheet:  Light & Color – worksheet packet (pages 5-7)
Notes, Slide 13-16:  Color Subtraction
Worksheet:  Light & Color – worksheet packet (pages 7-8, 11)

Day 5 - 2/27
MinutePhysics Video:  This is not a Rainbow
Picture:  Ryder’s paint with water picture
Demo:  Color films & overhead projectors – used red & blue objects to discuss appearance in non-white light
Worksheet:  Light & Color – worksheet packet (page 9)
Worksheet:  Practice sheet 2 – Color, Light & Pigments (for website: Visible Light & Color)
Quiz – EM Spectrum & Color

Day 6 - 2/28
IPOD # 8 – Color Addition & Subtraction
Review Quiz
Notes, Slide 18:  Law of Reflection
Notes, Slides 19-21: Lab intro (sight lines)
Lab – Reflection: Objects and Images in Plane Mirrors
Worksheet:  Light & Color – worksheet packet (pages 5-6)

Day 7 - 3/1
IPOD # 9 – Describe LOST for plane bathroom mirror
Demo: flying mirror
Physics Girl Video:  Why do Mirrors Flip Horizontally?
YouTube Video:  “What Color is a Mirror?,” vsauce
Demo: flying mirror
Worksheet:  Introduction to Curved Mirrors
Demo: Finding focal point with big mirror

Day 8 - 3/2
Lab – Concave (Converging) Mirrors
Worksheet: Refraction & Lenses – worksheet packet (page 1)…#1-6 (for website: Refraction & Lenses Packet)
Notes, Slides 31: refraction
Demo: Marching in Hall
Worksheet: Refraction & Lenses – worksheet packet (page 3)…#4, 6-10

Day 9 - 3/3
IPOD # 10 – Reflection: Concave Mirrors
Demo: Total Internal Reflection
Lab Demo – Convex (Converging) Lenses
Notes, Slides 35-37: Refraction & index of refraction (lab recap)
Notes, Slides 38-39 :  Concave/Convex Lenses – Ray Diagrams
Lab – Convex (Converging) Lenses

Day 10 - 3/6
IPOD # 11 – Refraction: Convex Lenses & Equations
Physics Girl Video:  How Rainbows Form?
Demo:  Mirage
Demo:  Image Box
Worksheet:  Unit 2 Review
Worksheet:  Study Guide for Picture Web

Day 11 - 3/7
Unit 2 Test