Pinhole Camera

As part of the Physics lessons this week, the students in Grades 7 and 9 were taught how to build a pinhole camera by themselves. A pinhole camera functions on simple basic rules of optics and thus makes it possible to experience principles that, for example, contribute to the functioning of the camera’s found on our smartphones. Students in Grade 7 were surprised by the fascinating images provided by the pinhole camera and were then able to use the principles of optics they had learned to explain how they are created. Students in class 9, on the other hand, were able to use equations they had learned in Mathematics and Physics classes to predict properties of the images, which were then confirmed by experiments with the pinhole camera.