1. Investigate the role optics play in the world of communications.

2. How have lives changed over the last fifty years as a result of fibre optic advances?

3. Build a working periscope to share with a group of your peers.

4. Examine how optics have transformed the movie industry in the last century.

5. Conduct an interview with the inventor of the telescope. How will you broadcast this interview? Will it be print, recorded or in a multi-media format?

6.Plan an Optics Fair. Make arrangements for location, guests, and attendance by other classes. What will you ask your guests to bring to the fair? What do you hope to gain from it?

7. Evaluate the role that Canadians have played in the world of fibre optics. Keep a record of your research, and any peole you communicate with in this investigation.

8. Design an experiment to illustrate your knowledge of the meaning of one of the following: reflection, refraction, wavelength

9. Design a "How it Works" reference manual for things you wish to investigate around the school. For example: from light switch to light, the photocopier, digital cameras

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11. Develop a continuum charting the progress of optics. Include all of the developments you can find, and place them in their appropriate order. Analyze what you see. Are there any predictions you can make?

12. List all of the inventions that you can think of that have had a significant impaact on our lives. Rank them from most important to least important. Provide clear reasons for your top three and your bottom three.

13. Assess theimpact of a Y2K glitch if it meant that we no longer had electricity. How would that loss be experienced in our society?

14. Add your name to the book of "Who's Who". Where will you take current knowledge and technology for future application?

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16. Locate areas in your community where you can see optics at work. Plot a variety of discovering on a map of the Lambton Kent region.