Curated OER
Seeing is Believing - Or Is It?
Here is a great science lesson. It extends the concept of vision into the area of optical illusions, perspective, and tessellation. This well-designed plan has tons of great activities, utilizes interesting video, and should lead to a...
Curated OER
Perception is not Always Reality
Seventh graders explore explanations of natural illusions. In this perception instructional activity students solve a problem by applying the process of science.
Curated OER
"The Face in the Trees" Lesson
In this illusion instructional activity, students look at the picture and read the poem about the face in the trees, answer multiple choice questions about it, and complete a word search. Students complete 3 activities.
Curated OER
Magnificent Monet
Students research the water lily paintings of Claude Monet and the impressionistic art period. They create their own impressionistic art works and display them in the classroom.
Yale University
Yale: The Illusion of the Renaissance
A curriculum unit on perspective, detailing the differences between medieval and Renaissance art. This is designed as a studio art course for 8th grade through high school, and contains some good information and activities. Illustrations...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Optical Illusions
Try these great optical illusions yourself, and read the explanation of how your brain fools your eyes. You will need Shockwave to run these properly.
Other
Ritsumeikan University: Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages
A large collection of visual illusions and anomalous motion illusions. The latter can potentially make a person feel dizzy and should be viewed or shared with caution.
Hanover College
Hanover College: Use of Visual Information in Art
This site from Hanover College gives a tutorial on issues of visual representation, such as depth, perspective, texture, shadow, illusion. Begins at an introductory level. Numerous pictures.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Perfect Perception? (Perception and Illusion)
In this lesson, young scholars discuss and explore perception and illusions. Websites are provided showing various optical illusions. Students are asked to journal about illusions, recreate illusions, and create their own flip-book.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Optical Illusions
A brief informative site on optical illusions. Includes some beautiful examples of optical illusions such as spinning disks, color wheels, and Moire Pattern Generators.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Shimmer
Student will see this design shimmer! Use this site to learn about this optical illusion and what makes it happen.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Fading Dot
At this site see a dot fade away in this on-line experiment. Learn why this happens in "What's Going On?"
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Mona
At this site see the effects our brains have on what we see when we view a picture upside-down.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Post Card Exhibits: Illusions & Other Surprises
At this site students can experiment with different illusions and even print them out to try on their friends.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: The Magic Years?
Explore children's perceptions by practicing and performing magic tricks for them and then asking them to explain what they think they saw.
English Zone
English zone.com: Commonly Confused Words 01 Quiz
Definitions of seven commonly confused words (adapt/adopt, allusion/illusion, cite/site/sight) followed by ten sentences where students choose the correct words to fill in the blanks. When finished, students can check their answers to...
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: See Some Optical Illusions
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Impossible Objects
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use math to create two dimensional illusions in the form of impossible objects. Students use the drawing and measuring tools to create mathematical art.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Allusion/illusion
A brief definition of allusion with examples. Differentiates between the term allusion and the term illusion.
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Other
Color Reversing Flag [Pdf]
Use this picture to create a color reversing illusion. Great for projects and presentations.
Other
Kass/meridian: Vasarely: Op Artist
Beautiful visuals of the work of Victor Vasarely, father of Op art.