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Activity 1
Seeing in
the Dark

Curriculum Link:
Ages 11-14
- Light
- Ideas and evidence
Ages 14-16
- How Science Works

Students will learn:
- How Ibn Al-Haitham changed ideas about important optical phenomena
- How to construct and use a pinhole camera
- About the similarities and differences of pinhole and digital cameras

Students will learn:
- How an Ethiopian Arab - Khalid - discovered coffee more than 1000 years ago
- To devise and do an investigation to test the hypothesis that caffeine increases alertness

Students will learn:
- How Muslim scientists developed the techniques to make - and the recipes for - a wide range of perfumes
- To devise a method to extract perfumed oil from orange peel

Curriculum Links:
Ages 11-14
- Pressure and moments

Students will learn how to:
- Explain how difference in air pressure can move liquids
- Apply this idea to construct an argument for how a water pump works

Students will:
- Learn about the pioneering work of Muslim scientists on plant classification
- Explore the pros and cons of herbal medicine in today's world

Students will learn:
- That the Muslim world had sophisticated pharmaceuticals and strict rules for their sales 800 years ago
- To evaluate a product using a neutralisation reaction

Students will:
- Recognise the triangle as a strong shape in structures from Muslim tents to modern bridges
- Use the principle of arches for an efficient bridge design

Students will:
- Consider observations and evidence about three natural phenomena
- Evaluate evidence and arguments to choose the best explanation for each phenomenon
- Prepare to argue for a particular explanation of a natural phenomenon at a scientific conference

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