Lessons that utilize manipulatives and problem solving.

Materials: miras, straight edges, golf holes (created ahead of time or student created), direction sheets

Goal: Using miras, find the paths of a ball (bouncing off of walls) to make a hole playing a miniature golf hole.

Activity:

Intro to angles of incidence and angles of reflection . Property….The angle at which an object hits the wall (angle of incidence) is equal to the angle it bounces off the wall (the angle of reflection).
Make a guess as to which walls to bounce the ball off of and create the pattern of reflections from the “hole” to the first position of the ball.
Connect the reflections to create the path of the ball.