At the Science Lab with the Italian students of I.C. "L. Montini" Campobasso
MAKE YOUR OWN CAMERA OBSCURA
The students of class 2C and their Science teacher Mr Antonio Trivisonno, made some models of portable camera obscura to demonstrate that light rays come into a dark space and reflect an inverted image on the opposite wall.
THEY USED:
- potato chips canisters
- Xacto knife
- duct tape
- pushpin
- parchment paper
- scissors
STEP 1
Cut the canister about 2 inches from the bottom
STEP 2
Cover the top of the shorter piece with parchment paper, put the lid on it then put the longer part on top of that. After that, tape them together.
STEP 3
Poke a hole in the bottom of the short end with a pushpin.
STEP 4
Now look through the open end...
What a fantastic view: everything is upside down!
WHAT A GENIUS LEONARDO! He was the first to understand that the human eye works like a camera obscura. He said: "No image, even of the smallest object, enters the eye without being turned upside down."
Leonardo's drawing of the eye
The camera obscura sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in Codex Atlanticus (1515), preserved in Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Italy).
WE HAD GREAT FUN! IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING LAB! (Class 2C)
On 9th May we presented the portable camera obscura at the exhibition. What a success!
MISS RÓZSA'S ART GROUP:
We created Camera Obscura from cardboard box and presented it at the Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition with great success. Kids tried it out by sitting in the box.
Lesson plan
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Religious School
One of our student designed a camera obscura and presented at our school exhibition.
Karabörk Secondary School- Hande Türker
Students created a model for the camera obscura, it looks interesting but they know how it works, though :)
They used;
shoe box,scissors, knife, mirror, plaster.
Their inspiration :)
The result ;)
