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Sight and Light
Learners examine the eyeball and its parts. For this sight lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab activity that includes creating a model.
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Technology and the Human Eye
Fifth graders compare technology and the human eye. In this science lesson, 5th graders label the parts of the human eye and trace the path of light as it travels through the eye.
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Seeing the Way: A Brief History of Cataract Surgery
Students study the eye and how all the parts work together. In this cataract instructional activity students view an interactive website on the eye.
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Challenges and Changes: Sensitivity to Vision & Hearing Compromises
Students examine the structure of the eye. In this eye anatomy lesson students complete a lab activity of the human eye.
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How We See
Students study how images they see are transmitted to the brain. In this sight lesson students complete several activities that have to do with visual pathways and field defects.
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Similar/Different: Nervous System
In this nervous system activity, learners identify 2 ways that a computer and brain, a telephone wire and the spinal cord and a camera and an eye are similar and different.
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Targeting an Action
Students explore how the brain how the brain infers the position of a moving target. They investigate how the brain can fine-tune its motor control over the muscle groups that will perform the intended action. Students participate in a...
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Oh, Say Can You See
Young scholars explore different parts of the eye and functions of each part through a video and a dissection of a cow's eye. They discover different causes of blindness.
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Cow Eye Dissection Lab
Students explore the anatomy of the eye by dissecting a cow eye Students are introduced the concept behind vision and the anatomy to the eye.
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The Eye
In this science worksheet, students look for the words in the puzzle that are related to the theme of the word search. Spelling skills are worked on.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Vision and Color Perception
A high-level scientific explanation of the way the eye senses light and sees images and color. Excellent graphics help you visualize complex workings of the human eye.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Cow's Eye Dissection
A one stop for all items about cow's eye dissection! Included on this website is a video of a dissection, interactive eye diagram to learn more about how the eye functions, and a step-by-step instructions to complete a cow dissection on...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Common Eye Defects
The eye and its common defects are discussed along with corrective measures.
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Vision and Optical Illusions
Wow! A great page full of different experiments to illustrate the phenomena of optical illusions, and then it explains what is happening!
Other
Lens Shopper: Anatomy of the Eye
Learn about the human body's own "camera" as you explore the inner workings of the human eye. This resource is displayed as a three-dimensional, interactive animation.
The Tech Interactive
Make a Splash With Color
The companion website for an exhibit housed at the Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose. The exhibit explores and explains how our eyes see color, the words we use to describe colors, and how the eye works.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: The First Steps of Human Vision
Describes the contributions of scientists over hundreds of years leading to our current understanding of the eye and vision.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Optic Nerve
This site from Bartleby.com contains great information on the Optic nerve. Two picture/charts are provided along with a packed defintion on the subject. This definition was taken as an insert out of Henry Gray's Anatamony of the Human Body.
National Institutes of Health
National Eye Institute: The Cornea
This government site explains the function and structure of the cornea and includes a diagram with labeled parts of the eye.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Taking Care of Your Vision
Vision is something that can sometimes be taken for granted until a problem arises. Find out why taking care of your eyes is so important as well as procedure that insure proper eyesight.
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Kids Health: What's Visual Impairment
What's it like for people who are visually impaired? How does it happen and what can be done? Be sure to read the whole article and click on the tabs to the right for more information.
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Kids Health: A How the Body Works
This resource provides complete, mini-learning modules about different aspects of the human body. Click on the eyeball to focus your search.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Waves: The Three Color Mystery
Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...