Friday 25th January

In our Science lesson on Monday our learning objective was to become a better scientist by investigating how light is reflected by different surfaces and by investigating the nature of reflections in mirrors. To do this we completed two activities, they were...

...Mirror Writing

For this we had to write a short message, use the mirror to reflect it into mirror code and then copy the coded message. We then gave it to a friend to decode using another mirror! We learnt that a mirror is a highly polished, shiny surface and light reflects (bounces) off it at the same angle that it hits it. This means that when we look at it, we see the image of an object reflected, but the image is back to front, e.g. the mirror writing!

...Mirror Maze

For this we had to trace over an ‘up and down line’ whilst only being able to look at our hand in the mirror! It was very tricky because, as we learnt during the ‘Mirror Writing’ challenge, the image of our hand is backwards when we look at it in a mirror.