Handout
Remedy Health Media

Health Central: Conjunctivitis

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent information on conjunctivitis from the HealthCentral Encyclopedia. Includes definition, description, risk and factors, and symptoms.
Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: The Truth About a Bird's Eye View

For Students 3rd - 8th
An article about the eyes and sight of different animals including flies, dogs, color vision, and night vision.
Website
Other

The Vision Learning Center: Color Blindness

For Students 9th - 10th
Page with facts about color blindness. Provides good questions and good feedback about this eye condition and what treatments are available.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Happened to Your Eye?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a virtual lab that investigates the effects of damage to eye muscles and nerves on the motion of the eyes. This lab is extremely realistic. This activity can be done as a whole class or as a demonstration.
Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Vision Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Definitions of many technical and anatomical terms related to vision and the eye.
eBook
York University

York University: The Lens

For Students 9th - 10th
Great description of the part of the eye called the lens, as well as what it does and how.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Introduction to the Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Mona

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site see the effects our brains have on what we see when we view a picture upside-down.
Interactive
Other

Senses: Online Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Have fun finding words associated with the five senses: smell, taste, touch, hearing, and sight. When finished with the game, rescramble the word search and play again.
Activity
Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: See Some Optical Illusions

For Students 9th - 10th
A webpage on optical illusions, containing a grid of black squares, an elephant with four or five legs, and a picture with three faces in it.
Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Tus Ojos

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the part of your body that lets you read the back of your favorite cereal box, and let you see all those beautiful things around you.
Handout
Other

Cleveland Clinic: Cole Eye Institute: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, sponsored by the Cole Eye Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, provides one doctor's short description on Amblyopia. (Amblyopia is better known as a lazy eye).
Website
Other

Tsbvi: Information About Color and Color Blindness

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides a list of links about color blindness. Split into two categories: living with color blindness, and color blindness tests and simulations.
Unit Plan
SEDL

Sedl: Five Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
Activity
Other

Color Reversing Flag [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this picture to create a color reversing illusion. Great for projects and presentations.
Activity
Other

Sandlot Science: The Ambiguous Cube Illusion [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Plans for building a 3-D cube illusion. Useful for projects on perception and vision.
Graphic
Curated OER

Altlas of European Values: Eyes of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Special-effects photograph of a human face overlaid with a map of the world..