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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Introduction to the Senses

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

Color Reversing Flag [Pdf]

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