Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Benham's Disk
This lesson plan has a simple experiment students can do to help them understand how we see color.
NASA
Nasa: Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses
This resource, which is provided for by NASA, gives great information on protecting your eyes during solar eclipses. Your eyes are very difficult to replace. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Lateral Inhibition
An activity that will have you questioning which is in control, your eyes or your brain? This activity has students constructing simple paper tubes to investigate how the eyes work.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bird in a Cage
Learn about the receptor cells in your eye's by completing this activity! In this activity, observe how by staring at one color you will see another due to adaptation of the cones in your eye.
Other
Live Binders: Virtual Eye Dissection
Take a look at a diagram of the eye, know its anatomy, physiology, and virtually dissect it.
National Institutes of Health
National Eye Institute: Optical Illusions
Visit this site for some optical illusions for you to have fun with! Click on the "optical illusions" page in this PDF format for a printable version of these four illusions.
Curated OER
Kids Health: My Body
For elementary school children, this page presents information about lungs, muscles, digestive system, teeth, skin, tongue, hair, heart, and more.
Other
The Flow of the Aqueous Humor
A detailed diagram of where the aqueous fluid comes from and what its function is.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Taking a Good Look at Glasses
This site from Kids Health provides comprehensive information on how corrective lenses help.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Conjunctivitis (Pinkeye)
Information about the different types of Conjunctivitis, incubation, and prevention. Has links to related articles.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Structure and Function of the Eye
This site provides a an excellent guide to the structure and function of the human eye. Content addresses how the eye is built, as well as how it works to translate light and shadow into sight. A diagram illustrating the various parts of...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Eye Quiz
How well do you know your eye structure and function? Find out with this 10 question online quiz.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: 20/20 Vision
In this activity, students determine their own eyesight and calculate what a good average eyesight value for the class would be. Students learn about technologies to enhance eyesight and how engineers play an important role in the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Vision Bricks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of the eye by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module. Students can also learn more about the concept...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: How the Eye Works
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The job of the eye is to focus light. The parts of the eye help it to carry out its job. Follow the path of light through the eye as you read about it. Learn more...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Vision and the Eye
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The structure and function of the eye and how we see.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Open Your Eyes
This webpage is a great resource for elementary teachers who are looking for activities, lessons, facts, and experiments pertaining to the eye.
The Tech Interactive
Tech Museum of Innovation: Inside Your Eyeball
After discussing the basics of the eye, this site explores the various functions of the eye and parts from the optic nerves to the retina. Cones, rods, and the brain are also discussed.
Remedy Health Media
Health Central: Conjunctivitis
Excellent information on conjunctivitis from the HealthCentral Encyclopedia. Includes definition, description, risk and factors, and symptoms.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Image Formation/detection
Students discover the four parts of the eye are the most instrumental in the task of producing images that are discernible by the brain.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Eye: Structure and Function
In this lesson, students learn about the structure and function of the human eye and research how it compares to animal eyes. They will then choose an eye, write a description, and make an illustration of it, which other students will...
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.