Camera obscura.(HandsOn) From: ChildArt | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Chin, Jessamine | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Child Art Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Picture this! You walk into a dark room and the shade is pulled down over the window. As your eyes adjust to the darkness you realize that there is a small hole in the shade. When you turn around and look at the opposite wall, you see the image of the world outside the window. Everything in the image is normal except it is all upside down. How is this possible? What is so special about this room?

When light rays reflect off objects and pass through the small hole in the ...