How is our eye built? How do people with low vision read? How does our brain play tricks on us to create movement and depth in a picture? What is light made of?
We answer these fascinating questions by exploring the anatomy of our giant eye and through our 5 experiments: reading Braille, Benham’s disc, making a thaumatrope, optical illusions and spectroscopes.
Your scientists will be proud to take their thaumatrope home!
Learning goals (elementary)
- Describe the parts of the eye.
- Understand how the eye detects colour (cones and rods).
- Observe, through optical illusions, how shapes, colours and textures seem to change in pictures.
- Make an optical illusion (to take home).
- Observe how coloured light rays behave (primary colours of light).
Learning goals (secondary)
- Identify the main parts of the eye involved in vision.
- Describe what the main parts of the eye do.
- Define a hereditary trait (eye colour).
- Describe dominant and recessive traits.
- Understand how the brain interprets the light information from the eyes (cones, rods, inverted image and more).
- Observe optical illusions that fool the brain.
