Materials Wish List:

Please, put your initials in bold next to any items that you can provide

• General Materials
  • Laboratory Notebooks - White paper w/staples or the formal notebooks?
  • Sentence Strips for Questions
  • Markers for the Sentence Strips
  • CfAO^? PDP-style Post-it poster paper for writing questions, sharing out?
  • pens
  • markers
  • butcher's block paper for tables (?)
  • rulers
  • protractors
  • flashlights
  • other light sources

• Pinholes:
  • aluminum foil [ SR ]
  • poky things (needles, thumbtacks, toothpicks) [ SR ]
  • shoe-boxes [ SR x2]
  • whole-head boxes
  • reflective surfaces (white paper, flat mirrors)
  • black construction paper
  • black tape
  • black cloth

• Image Formations with Lenses:
  • convex lenses of various focal length and diameter (esp. multiple lenses of different size with same focal length) [ SR ]
  • optical bench?
  • optical bench lens mounts?
  • ray boxes = tabletop lenses

• Image formation with (deformable) mirrors:
  • concave mirrors of various size and shape
  • flat mirrors, large and small
  • home-made deformable mirrors
    • clay or play-dough [ SR ]
    • small and tiny flat mirrors
    • semi-stiff continuous reflective surface (??)
  • corner cubes
  • chocolate-polished coke cans??

-- DavidLM - 05 Apr 2007