- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
Simple Camera
The Simple Camera displays an image of someone after light from them has passed through a lens as in a camera.
Activity.... Do - Think - Learn
A camera is a machine that records images. A simple camera consists of a box with a lens at one end and a light sensitive screen at the other.
If a friend sits facing the camera, what will you see on the screen?
Draw an outline of what you see on the paper.
What do you notice about the image?
How does a photographic camera work?
The Science Bit
In its simplest form a camera is a lightproof box, at one end is an opening where light is let in and the other end is a device to hold a film.
Modern cameras have a lens in front of the opening that admits light, this is so clearer and sharper pictures can be taken with less light.
All cameras have a viewing system, in simple cameras it is a view finder. This is a simple lens system where by light from an object will pass through a view finder to the eye of the person using the camera. The light will travel through another lens to be captured onto the film.
Curriculum Links
Ourselves
- That we have five senses which allow us to find out about the world
Light and Dark
- That light is essential for seeing things
Light and Shadows
- Transparent objects/materials let a lot of light through
How we see things
- That light travels from a source
Last Modified: 28/07/2011
