Term 3 Reflection

Term 3 has past and the I have learnt yet another topic on Science. This term was about physics and we are focusing on light. Before the start of the term, I thought that physics will be more difficult as unlike Chemistry and Biology, it involves extensive use of maths. However, I now know that this term's lessons was quite easy and the maths that we use are only basics. The lessons was easy to understand and the practicals are quite interesting too.

This term's lessons are also much more different than the last two term's lessons. This term we are required to do self-study and do all the worksheets on our own. We had to do the worksheets given by our teacher by ourselves and search for the information required. I feel that this was actually better for me rather than letting the teacher teach me as I can learn the topic more effectively if I did it myself. My teacher also helped us in our work during our lessons by clarifying any doubts about the topics and going through the worksheets so we know what is our mistakes.

The practicals that we did showed me how mirrors reflect and refract like. I also got to see some interesting phenomenons, such as total internal reflection and white light refracted into a rainbow. This practicals let me realise that mirrors and lens can easily manipulate light and man have been using this as an advantage since the olden days. For example, Archimedes had mirrors to reflect light to a single spot on an enemy ship and cause it to catch fire.

In conclusion, I feel that this term is quite fruitful and I got a good grasp of the topics that we learnt in this term. The lessons and the practicals helped me to learn this topic and understand it well.