Sherlock Holmes activity box

Some fun with magnifying glass and try to look at different objects using your own magnifying glass.

The activity can be only performed on sunny day under Adult supervision only.

When the sunlight focuses on a spot, the light decreases in size but intensifies in its brightness. When we concentrate a lot of sunlight at one point, so this intensified light & heat energy on a single spot so that there is enough energy to burn up the paper. lets do that!!!

A concave lens is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges. Concave lens will make an object look sharper and smaller in size.

A convex lens is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges. Magnifying glass has a convex lens.

The 3 Major Types of Fingerprints patterns are

Loop: This is the most popular fingerprint pattern. Indeed, with 60 to 70 percent of the total population have this pattern.

Whorl: This fingerprint pattern makes up about 25 to 35 percent of the total population.

Arch: This is the rarest type of fingerprint. In fact, about 5% of the world’s population have this fingerprint pattern.

Secret language is always fun when you want to keep your secrets. Detectives always have to do that. Lets create our own secret Language code!!!

Magnifying glass has convex lens which is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges. It magnifies the object if object is kept very near to the magnifying glass. Lets so some magnifying glass fun!!!