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.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Peripheral Vision
Try this experiment with a partner to investigate the extent of your peripheral eyesight. Includes video demonstration.
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.
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Eyes
The anatomy of the eye, how it functions to allow us to see, and vision problems that can develop are described.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Sensory Perception
Learn the different types of sensory receptors, and describe the structures responsible for the special senses of taste, smell, hearing, balance, and vision.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Conjunctivitis
This site from FamilyDoctor.org provides great information on conjunctivitis, or pinkeye. General information on the illness is given, along with facts about signs and symptoms of pinkeye. Links are provided throughout the article for...
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Laser Eye Surgery
Information is provided about laser surgery, which is used to correct vision problems and eliminate the need for glasses or contacts.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Protect Those Eyes
Students design and build prototypes for protective eyewear. They choose different activities or sports that require protective eyewear and design a device for that particular use. Students learn about the many ways in which the eyes can...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Don't Bump Into Me!
Students' understanding of how robotic ultrasonic sensors work is reinforced in a design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and ultrasonic sensors.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wristwatch Design for the Visually Impaired
Students are given a fictional client statement and required to follow the steps of the engineering design process to design a new wristwatch face for a visually impaired student at their school.
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Light Properties
Students learn about the basic properties of light and how light interacts with objects. They are introduced to the additive and subtractive color systems, and the phenomena of refraction. Students further explore the differences between...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Simulating Human Vision
Learners are introduced to the Robotics Peripheral Vision Grand Challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they require to answer the question. Their ideas are shared...
Free Management Library
Map: Overview of Leadership in Organizations
This site includes a vast amount of information regarding leadership. Topics include leadership styles, theories, and trends. Consists of a large number of links that allow for easy access to distinct topics.
Free Management Library
Map: Overview of Leadership in Organizations
This site includes a vast amount of information regarding leadership. Topics include leadership styles, theories, and trends. Consists of a large number of links that allow for easy access to distinct topics.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Keys to Success
Examines the lives of famous people who have achieved their life's goals by highlighting seven core principles that helped them to succeed. These include passion, vision, preparation, courage, perseverance, integrity, and pursuit of an...
Other
Macular Degeneration Support Group
A very thorough site about Macular Degeneration (MD). Contains MD writings and libraries of information.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Waves Go Public!
Students apply everything they have learned over the course of the associated lessons about waves, light properties, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the structure of the eye, by designing devices that can aid color blind people in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Three Color Mystery
Young scholars are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as a result, they must...
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It: Visual Basics
Vision or sight is one of the most important senses that animals can have. Learn about the anatomy of the different kinds of eyes .. simple, single-lens, and compound. Puzzles and games are included.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Aafp: Age Related Macular Degeneration
Details on how Age-Related Macular Degeneration is contracted and what types of foods can aid in fighting against it. Includes ideas on how to organize to compensate for lost vision abilities.