Take a magnifying glass to a room with a bright window and turn off the lights. Hold the magnifying glass near the wall opposite the window and move the glass toward or away from the wall until you see a window-shaped pattern of light appear on the wall. Once that pattern is visible, carefully adjust the magnifying glass's orientation and distance from the wall to obtain the sharpest image of the window. You'll probably also see images of objects outside that window, but you'll have to move the magnifying glass to sharpen those images.

1. Which way did you move the glass to get it to focus, and why can't all the images be sharp at the same time?2. You can project images of other brightly illuminated objects on a sheet of white paper. What features of the lens determine the sizes of those images?3. What determines their orientations?4. Block part of the lens, and notice how it affects the images.5. Try to form images of objects at different distances from you. Do they all form images simultaneously, or do you have to adjust the lens somehow to bring each image into sharp focus?6. If you had a larger magnifying glass, how would this change what you see?