What Can You Learn with Lenses?

Why does this spider look so big? It is magnified. When something is magnified, it looks bigger. We can see small things better. We can see faraway things better.

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How can you magnify something? You can use lenses. Lenses make objects look bigger. A lens is a curve piece of glass. Lenses work by bending light.

Lenses are used in eyeglasses. Lenses are used in microscopes. Lenses are used in telescopes.

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Lenses help us see. Lenses help us learn.

Look at this tiny animal. It is in a drop of pond water. We can use a microscope to see it. What do you see?

What Can You Do? How can you use lenses?

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