The camera - KS3 Activate lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 7 class.
This is the 5th lesson in “Chapter 3 - Light” from Activate 1, Physics. This lesson focuses on the camera, from the pages ‘the eye and the camera’. I have separated these into two lessons.
This lesson should be suitable to teach to any KS3 Physics class, even by those where physics is not their specialism.
This lesson (and all lessons in this unit) is designed to be interactive and engaging, with plenty of real world examples and independent tasks.
This lesson includes a class practical where students make a pinhole camera and use it to view the image of a candle.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

1. Describe the role of the key parts in a camera (aperture, lens, CCD)
2. Describe how a simple camera is used to view an image
3. Compare the parts of a camera to the parts of the eye
4. Make a simple pinhole camera and use it to view an image of a candle
5. To describe how the pinhole camera is used to view an image

All of my lesson resources contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task