Curved Mirrors

The Curved Mirrors Toolkit provides teachers with standards-based resources for designing lesson plans and units that pertain to such topics as reflection of light by curved mirrors, formation of images by curved mirrors, characteristics of images formed by curved mirrors, and the mathematics associated with the mirror equation and magnification equation. Both concave and convex mirror types are included. The Toolkit is supported by Lessons 3 and 4 of the Reflection and the Ray Model of Light chapter at The Physics Classroom Tutorial.


Each toolkit can be viewed in three different ways.

  1. Curved Mirrors - HTML Version of Complete Toolkit

    The HTML version of the complete toolkit contains all the resources with full descriptions and links to their location on the web. The complete toolkit also includes learning objectives and references the pertinent standards addressed by the resources.
     

  2. Curved Mirrors - PDF Version of Complete Toolkit

    The PDF version of the complete toolkit contains all the resources with full descriptions in a printer-friendly format. Learning objectives and relevant standards are also included in the PDF Version of the complete toolkit.
     

  3. Curved Mirrors - Toolkit To Go

    The Toolkit To Go is a 2-page PDF document that provides an abbreviated version of the complete toolkit. It contains as much information as could fit on two pages. Toolkits to Go can be photo-copied back-to-back, hole-punched, and filed in a teacher's folder or three-ring binder for future reference.