Remedy Health Media
Health Central: Conjunctivitis
Excellent information on conjunctivitis from the HealthCentral Encyclopedia. Includes definition, description, risk and factors, and symptoms.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: The Truth About a Bird's Eye View
An article about the eyes and sight of different animals including flies, dogs, color vision, and night vision.
Other
The Vision Learning Center: Color Blindness
Page with facts about color blindness. Provides good questions and good feedback about this eye condition and what treatments are available.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Happened to Your Eye?
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.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Vision Glossary
Definitions of many technical and anatomical terms related to vision and the eye.
York University
York University: The Lens
Great description of the part of the eye called the lens, as well as what it does and how.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Introduction to the Senses
This lesson plan allows learners to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Mona
At this site see the effects our brains have on what we see when we view a picture upside-down.
Other
Senses: Online Word Search Puzzle
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.
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.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Tus Ojos
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.
Other
Cleveland Clinic: Cole Eye Institute: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
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).
Other
Tsbvi: Information About Color and Color Blindness
Provides a list of links about color blindness. Split into two categories: living with color blindness, and color blindness tests and simulations.
SEDL
Sedl: Five Senses
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...
Other
Color Reversing Flag [Pdf]
Use this picture to create a color reversing illusion. Great for projects and presentations.
Other
Sandlot Science: The Ambiguous Cube Illusion [Pdf]
Plans for building a 3-D cube illusion. Useful for projects on perception and vision.
Curated OER
Altlas of European Values: Eyes of the World
Special-effects photograph of a human face overlaid with a map of the world..