CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Light as a Ray and the Law of Reflection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explain the ray model of light, describe the law of reflection, and investigate how images are formed from flat mirrors.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Properties and Behaviors of Heat, Light and Sound
How can scientists lump heat, light and sound together when investigating properties and behaviors? This learning module will address that question through a series of activities.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Total Internal Reflection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about total internal reflection. More specifically, they will learn what the critical angle is, how it is derived and how to solve for it in real life...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Translations, Reflections, and Rotations
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan introduces a variety of motion geometry concepts such as translations, reflections, and rotations. Lots of interactive support for students.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Reflection of Light
In this science lab, students work with a partner and complete four investigation activities that experiment with reflection using plane mirrors.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Light Properties
Students will investigate how light travels and what it does when it hits an object. Light sources will be used to represent a beam of light. Students will direct the beam toward various objects and materials. Through observations...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Light: A Form of Energy You Can See
Students will investigate how light is a form of energy that travels as waves away from the source. The basis for this instructional activity is taken from the Houghton Mifflin science curriculum. In the instructional activity...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Earth's Albedo
This engaging activity introduces young scholars to the concept of albedo and how it relates to Earth's energy balance. They measure the albedo using maps, data tables, and a shaker filled with popcorn kernels. Then, they estimate the...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online: On Reflection
This is an activity site to learn more about reflective symmetry. In order to complete this activity you will need a mirror.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Light Absorption, Reflection, & Refraction
A video and a short quiz on the properties of light.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Atmospheric Processes Radiation
This site provides background information, images, and an activity to help students understand the concept of radiation. Includes both the student pages and a teachers guide with lesson plan.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The "Active" Part: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Reflecting: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial the learner will be able to demonstrate what is necessary to be an active listener. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "The "Active" Part: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Reflecting."
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Algebra: Reflect Graphs
Mangahigh is a site that students can learn and practice math skills that are correlated to common core math standards. On this site students practice reflecting graphs of various functions using function notation.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Transtar: Reflections, Rotations, Dilations and Translations
For this geometry game, students must guide Transtar, an alien spaceship, across space by applying transformations to it. At the same time, there are dangers to avoid and the number of moves and tries are limited.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All Media: Light and Color
Why do we see certain colors? This interactive animation demonstrates the concept of the visible spectrum, and how we see the different colors of the rainbow.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Mirrors: Optics Bench Interactive
Find out about the physics behind those fun-house mirrors. Students manipulate a virtual optics bench to explore the images formed by mirrors and lenses.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Ray Model of Light: The Law of Reflection
Through an illustrated tutorial and some interactive practice problems, students learn about the law of reflection of light.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection/light Ray Model: Specular/diffuse Reflection
A series of incident rays and their corresponding reflected rays are depicted in the diagrams in this tutorial. Each ray strikes a surface with a different orientation; yet each ray reflects in accordance with the law of reflection.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Ray Model of Light: Why an Image Is Formed
This illustrated physics tutorial uses animations to attempt to explain to students why images appear.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Ray Model of Light: Image Characteristics
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students learn about real and virtual images.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and the Ray Model of Light: Ray Diagrams
This illustrated physics tutorial serves as a step-by-step guide to drawing ray diagrams. It includes an opportunity for students to practice and check their answers.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection/ray Model of Light: Mirror Portion Required
A tutorial which demonstrates how ray diagrams can be used to determine what portion of a plane mirror must be used in order to view an image.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Ray Model of Light: Right Angle Mirrors
Discover how light reacts when it strikes mirrors which are placed at right angles to each other.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection/ray Model of Light: Multiple Mirror Systems
Illustrated examples and practice problems included in this tutorial help students discover how light rays react in multiple mirror systems.