- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
Horizontal Periscope
Two mirrors in a horizontal tube can be turned individually to investigate reflection.
Activity.... Do – Think - Learn
Periscopes allow us to see objects that are out of our direct line of sight. Turn the mirrors so that you can see each other and not yourself.
At what angle do the mirrors need to be set? Each section is 5 degrees.
How and when are periscopes used?
How can you see behind you?
The Science Bit
In its simplest form a periscope is a tube, within this tube will be an arrangement of lenses and mirrors, or prisms. This allows the viewer to see around things or on a level that the eye cannot see.
This periscope works by a side mirror catching an image and reflecting into the tube at an angle. At the other end of the tube a second mirror will reflect the image into the viewer’s vision. These mirrors angles can be changed so viewers can see different things behind them.
Curriculum Links
Light and Dark
- That light is essential for seeing things
How we see things
- That light travels from a source
- That we see light sources because light from the source enters our eyes
- That light from an object can be reflected by a mirror, the reflected light enters our eyes and we see the object
- That when a beam of light is reflected from a surface, its direction changes
Last Modified: 28/07/2011
