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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

 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