Anatomy of the Eye: Camera Obscura
Level: Grades 3 – 8 Time: 1.5 hours

Construct a box that captures and focused images. Use it as an artist’s camera obscura…a drawing tool. Or make it into a model of the eye. Then rearrange the elements.

Add a light. And recreate one of Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest leaps of invention: a projector.

Camera Obscura/Projector: $10 per student.

Connecticut Core Curriculum Framework. 5.1 Sound and light are forms of energy. 5.2 Perceiving and responding to information about the environment is critical to the survival of organisms. 5.4 Humans have the capacity to build and use tools to advance the quality of their lives.

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