Science: Quarter 2 - Module 4: Uses of Mirrors and Lenses
Science: Quarter 2 - Module 4: Uses of Mirrors and Lenses
Science: Quarter 2 - Module 4: Uses of Mirrors and Lenses
Science
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Uses of Mirrors and Lenses
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Science
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Uses of Mirrors and Lenses
Science – Grade 10
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Quarter 2 – Module 4: Uses of Mirrors and Lenses
First Edition, 2020
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What I Know
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your Science
Activity Notebook.
1. You see the reflection of the analog type of clock without numbers in your
plane mirror. The image formed by the hands of the clock shows the time of
8:30. What is the real time?
a. 3: 30
b. 8: 30
c. 9:30
d. 12:30
5. What kind of mirror is used in the side mirrors of automobiles and trucks to
give the driver a wider area and smaller image of traffic behind him?
a. Plane mirror
b. Convex mirror
c. Concave mirror
d. None of the above
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8. The sun’s rays are observed to focus at a point behind a lens. What kind of
lens was used?
a. converging lens
b. diverging lens
c. focusing lens
d. none of the above
12. What type of image is formed by the concave side of the spoon when the
object is closer to it?
a. Upright and bigger
b. Upside down and bigger
c. Upright and smaller
d. Upside down and smaller
b. e
c. ǝ
d.
14. What part of the camera corresponds to the retina of our eyes?
a. aperture
b. shutter
c. iris diaphragm
d. photographic film
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Lesson
Uses of Mirrors
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What’s In
As mentioned in the first part of this module, mirrors have become part of our
daily routine. At home, we normally use plane mirror, a type of mirror that can be
found in almost every household. We use
this to check on what’s needed to be fixed on
the way we look.
In a barbershop and in a salon or even in malls’ fitting rooms you will find a
lot of mirrors arranged parallel to each other, one in front of you and another one at
your back; it can also be one on your left and another on your right. Were you able
to notice the images that your eyes can see?
If the answer in the above’s question is no, try to observe again the images in
the mirrors that surround you, when you happen to go to one of the said places and
count the number of images that you can see.
Surely, this arrangement of mirrors will make it hard for you to count the
number of images that you see, because it will give you infinite number of images;
which means a number that can’t be counted.
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What’s New
Have you checked yourself in the mirror today? Try to do this activity to
reveal a message that is specially sent for you.
You’ve Got a Message in a Mirror!
What you need: Pen, Science Activity Notebook and Mirror
What you have to do:
1. Read the flipped words below by facing the text box in front of a mirror.
What is It
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Let’s have a little recall of what a mirror is. Technically, a mirror is a reflective
surface, made of glass coated with metals, which bounces off light that strikes its
surface and form a visual representation or projection of an object called image.
Questions like: How do images form in a mirror? How is one able to see his or
her image in the mirror? What makes up a mirror? These were the queries you asked
before going through the modules about Mirrors and Lenses, but surely these
learnings were all made clear in the prior modules about the said topics.
In the previous modules about mirrors, you found out that mirrors produce
different types of images depending on their shapes. Plane and convex mirrors form
images called virtual images, upright and erect. Other type of image formed by a
mirror is called real image; inverted upside down and larger than the original image.
Concave mirrors can produce both virtual and real images.
A mirror is not just flat and plane, a mirror can be curved; convex and concave
mirrors. These mirrors are collectively called spherical mirrors.
Concave mirror
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What’s More
(Adapted from: Science and Technology Textbook for Fourth Year, Reprint Edition)
Materials: Flashlight (the one that can be dismantled), pen and Science
Activity Notebook
Procedure:
1. Get a flashlight and switch it on. What do you observe about the beam it
emits?
5. Put the bulb in a position 1. Connect to the source and switch it on.
Q2. What do you observe about the beam it emits?
_________________________________________
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The activity on Light Reflectors allows you to understand how a concave mirror
illuminates light beam from a small source. As you can observe, when the bulb is
removed from the concave reflector, the light it emitted is not as bright as when it is
positioned in the center of the reflector.
1. Hold a make-up mirror close in front of you. Describe the image that you see.
Write your observations in your Science activity notebook.
Q1. _______________________________________________________________________
2. Have someone hold the mirror for you, slowly move at least 3 m away from the it.
Observe your image as you move away from the mirror. Are there any changes in
the image formed? Write your observations.
Q2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. Holding the same mirror, turn the other side close in front of you. What do you
observe about the image that you see? How do you compare your image on this
side of the mirror to the image formed in the opposite side of it?
Q3. _______________________________________________________________________
4. Again, have someone hold the mirror for you, slowly move at least 3 m away
from the mirror. How do you compare your image when you were observing it
closer in front of you and when you were 3m away from the mirror?
Q4 _______________________________________________________________________
5. Now this time, sit close in front of a side mirror. How do you describe the image
that you see? Write your observations.
Q5. _______________________________________________________________________
6. Slowly move at least 3 m away from the side mirror. Observe your image as you
move away from the mirror. Write your observations.
Q6. _______________________________________________________________________
7. Compare the images formed in different mirrors. You may draw illustrations to
support your answer.
Q7. _______________________________________________________________________
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The activity above helped you understand the different images formed by the
three different mirrors; plane mirror, concave mirror and convex mirror. A plane
mirror produces upright, left-right reversed and virtual image. Concave mirror
produces a magnified image and virtual image, but as you move away from it,
image is projected upside down, called real image. Convex mirror on the other
hand gives us the smaller version of the image, thus allowing us to see wider view
field.
Assessment 1
Directions: Identify what is defined in the following statement, you can use the
jumbled letters in each item as a hint. Write your answers on your Science Activity
Notebook.
1. A plane mirror is a flat surface mirror, the image formed by a plane mirror
is called (TULARIV) image.
2. Mirrors arranged parallel to each other can form (ENITFNII) image, a
number you can’t count.
4. A convex mirror is used in car’s side mirror because it gives (RDWIE) view
field than concave mirrors.
5. To secure the store from shoplifters, aside from CCTV camera, store owners
hang (RORMIR XNCOEV) on the corner.
Lesson
Uses of Lenses
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What’s In
In your lessons about the behavior of light in Grade 8, you learned that light
is not reflected when it hits a surface. Light can also bend or refract when travelling
from one medium to another. In this part of the module, let us talk about another
object which plays a vital role in the study of the behavior of light, lenses. Like the
mirror, the lens is usually made of glass. The only thing that makes it different is
that the lens can also be made of other transparent materials like plastics that allow
light to pass through, instead of bouncing the light rays off. Lenses come also in two
types, namely: convex (converging) and concave (diverging) lenses. When these lenses
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are combined, the produced lens is called meniscus lens. This type has one concave
and one convex lens on opposite sides.
What’s New
On Lenses
The discovery of the uses of lenses has opened a lot of doors for many other
discoveries in the field of Science. It has allowed scientists to explore what’s beyond
the Earth and importantly; through our eyes, which has built-in natural lenses, we
are able to enjoy all of these wonderful things and creations. The prior modules
about mirrors and lenses explained the principles behind how lenses work.
In this part of the module, let us unravel more of it as we talk about some of
the fundamental applications of lenses.
What is It
If both sides of the lens are curved inward, then that type of convex lens is
called biconvex typically seen in magnifying glasses. If only one side of the lens is
curved inward and the other has a flat surface, it is called as plano-convex.
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Figure 7a. biconvex Figure 7b. plano-convex
Microscopes
CAMERA LENSES
As illustrated in Figure 9.1, DSLR camera uses convex lenses where light rays
pass through. These light rays are directed towards the slanted mirror located near
the camera shutter, and then reflected from a translucent screen projected to another
mirror until it reaches the viewer’s eye. Through this, the photographer will be able
to see what he is capturing.
The image formed by the passing of light rays, from the object through the
lens directing to the film of the camera, is affected by the angle of the light entry. The
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closer the lens to the object, the farther the beams converge. The farther the object
from the lens, the shorter the distance the light beams converge. That is how the
camera works. Though it seems complicated, the entire process is just seconds-long.
Concave Lens
Contrary to
concave lens,
convex lens has
thicker edges
curving towards
the center,
Figure 10. The Human Eye and a Camera
causing light to
diverge, hence it is called as the diverging lens.
It spreads out light, producing virtual image,
making object to appear smaller and farther
than the way it actually is.
Although convex lenses can magnify object, it still cannot transfer light
accurately that’s why an object would appear blurry, so Figure 11. Concave lens
makers of binoculars and telescopes add concave lens to
these instruments in order to focus objects that are too far for our eyes to see.
Concave lenses, such as eyeglasses and contact lenses are used in correcting
myopia (nearsightedness). Myopia is a condition in which light rays focus in front of
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the eye’s retina instead of, on the retina. The result of this condition is a makes
distant object to appear blurry, while near objects appear normal.
What’s More
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2. Bring the lens near your classmate’s eyes (at least 5cm -6cm away)
Q2. What did you notice? Draw an illustration of what you saw.
_______________________________________________________________________
4. Now hold the concave lens further away from you (a hand-stretched forward
distance) and look in something at a distance.
Q5. What do you see? Describe the object that you are looking at using the
concave lens. You may illustrate this observation.
_________________________________________________________________________
5. Compare the images you saw with the two different lenses. Summarize your
observations using the following descriptions: Larger; smaller; upright and;
upside down. Copy and complete the table below.
The activity above, showed how the two kind of lenses can form different types
of images. Their sizes and orientations in one’s eyes depend on the two factors:
distance and the types of lens.
This also made us understand why certain lenses are used for specific
purposes.
Assessment 2
Directions: Complete each sentence below by choosing the correct word/words
inside the parentheses. Write your answer on your Science activity
notebook.
1. Rita, a Medicine student, wanted to examine the differences between animal
and plant cell. Her observation will be made better with the use of _________.
(magnifying glass, microscope).
2. When you hold a convex lens farther from you to see objects afar, the image
that you see is (smaller and upside down, bigger and upright).
4. When you hold a concave lens further from you to see objects afar. The
image that you see is (smaller and upright, bigger and upside down).
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What I Have Learned
Read: Now let us summarize what we have discussed in this module, complete the
synopsis below, by filling up the blank spaces with the appropriate word/words. You
may choose the words from the textbox provided. Word/words can be used more
than once, so don’t hesitate to use the word/s that you have used already.
Mirror and lenses are the tools used in studying the two main behavior of light:
(1) _________________ or the bending of light and (2) __________________ the bouncing
off of light.
Mirrors come in different types. The first one is the (3) _________________, a
type of mirror with a flat surface, it produces an image flipped vertically, this is
known as (4) ____________. When mirrors are placed next to each other at a certain
angle it can create more than one images, known as (5) ________________. When
mirrors are placed in (6) ______________ position, facing each other, an infinite
number of images is produced. The spherical mirrors come in two: (7) ______________
or the converging mirror and (8) _________________ the diverging mirror.
These mirrors also function differently. A mirror which provides wider view
field making distant objects appear smaller is (9) __________________. If you want to
increase the beam that a certain source of light is radiating, you must enclose it in a
(10) ______________. Dentists also use this kind of mirror because it can magnify the
teeth they are checking on, and this makes easier for them to find the hidden cavity.
Like mirror, lenses also come in either convex lens, known as (11)____________
and concave lens, which is also called (12) ________________.
These lenses are also useful to man, like how a mirror is. To see minute or tiny
microorganisms, Scientists use (13) ____________ which has (14) _____________.
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In our body, we do also have a natural camera with built in lenses; these are
our (17) ___________. It enables us to see the world around us because it has an
opening that resembles the aperture of a camera. Natural shutters are like our (18)
_____________, that opens and shuts. The (19) ________________controls the light that
enters our eyes and the photographic film is like our (20) ____________, recording and
capturing the beautiful views around us.
What I Can Do
This activity will help you apply whatever learnings you have obtained from
the above discussion about lenses. Using materials that you can see around you,
improvise or build your own telescope. A telescope is an optical instrument used in
viewing far objects, it is the instrument that astronomers use in observing the sky,
especially at night. Now, imagine yourself as a budding astronomer who lived during
the time that technology has not flourished yet.
Young Galileo, please note that your version of telescope will be assessed with
the following criteria:
Creativity 30%
Functionality 30%
Application of Scientific Knowledge 40%
Total 100%
Now young Galileo, it’s time for you to build your own telescope!
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Assessment
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your Science
Activity Notebook.
1. Which of the following tells the difference between lenses and mirrors?
a. Lenses refract light, mirrors reflect light.
b. Lenses make object appear larger, while mirrors give exact copy of object.
c. Lenses reflect light, mirrors refract light.
d. Lenses produce virtual image; mirrors make real image.
4. You see the reflection of the analog type of clock without numbers in your
plane mirror. The image formed by the hands of the clock shows the time of
10:00. What is the real time?
a. 2: 00
b. 1:00
c. 7:00
d. Still 10:00
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8. Which of the following statements is TRUE about virtual image?
a. virtual image seems to appear behind the mirror and is upside down.
b. virtual image seems to appear behind the mirror and is seen in an
upright position.
c. virtual image is formed after the light rays are reflected from the mirror.
d. All of the above.
9. The sun’s rays are observed to focus at a point behind a lens. What kind of
lens was used?
a. converging lens
b. diverging lens
c. focusing lens
d. none of the above
10. Looking through a concave lens, arm-length away can make object appear
_______.
a. smaller and upright
b. smaller and upside down
c. larger and upright
d. larger and upside down
13. What type of image is formed by the concave side of the spoon when the
object is arm-length away from it?
a. Upright and bigger
b. Upside down and bigger
c. Upright and smaller
d. Upside down and smaller
b. e
c. ǝ
d.
15. Which of the following parts of the eyes function like the aperture and iris
diaphragm of a camera?
a. eyelid and cornea
b. pupil and eyelid
c. retina and cornea
d. pupil and iris
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What I Know/Assessment
1. A 6. B 11. A
2. B 7. C 12. B
3. C 8. A 13. D
4. A 9. B 14. D
5. B 10. A 15. D
Assessment 1 Assessment 2
1. VIRTUAL 1. microscope
2. INFINITE 2. smaller and upside down
3. KALEIDOSCOPE 3. convex
4. WIDER 4. smaller and upright
5. CONVEX MIRROR 5. hyperopia
What I Have Learned
1. refraction 11. converging lens/es
2. reflection 12. diverging lens/es
3. plane mirror 13. microscopes
4. lateral inversion 14. convex lenses
5. multiple images 15. concave lenses
6. parallel 16. meniscus lenses
7. concave mirror 17. eyes
8. diverging mirror 18. eyelids
9. convex mirror 19. iris diaphragm
10. concave mirror 20. retina
Answer Key
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