Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Cow's Eye Dissection
A one stop for all items about cow's eye dissection! Included on this website is a video of a dissection, interactive eye diagram to learn more about how the eye functions, and a step-by-step instructions to complete a cow dissection on...
University of Utah
University of Utah: learn.genetics: Foundational Toolkit Genes
Explains how the eyes of very diverse species have a common genetic ancestry.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Eye vs. Camera
Your eyes don't always capture the world exactly as a video camera would. But the eyes are remarkably efficient organs, the result of hundreds of millions of years of coevolution with our brains. The following video and guide outlines...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Evolution of the Human Eye
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to a few quadrillion, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second. How did these complex structures...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Are Those Floaty Things in Your Eye?
Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? This video explains...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How We See Color
There are three types of color receptors in your eye: red, green and blue. But how do we see the amazing kaleidoscope of other colors that make up our world? The following learning module explains how humans can see everything from...
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: Physclips: The Eye and Color Vision
Learn about the eye and how it processes color in this learning module.
Other
Lens Shopper: Anatomy of the Eye
Learn about the human body's own "camera" as you explore the inner workings of the human eye. This resource is displayed as a three-dimensional, interactive animation.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Seeing Is Believing
In this lesson, students investigate the properties of light using simple materials. Includes handout and video resources.
Curated OER
Kids Health: A How the Body Works
This resource provides complete, mini-learning modules about different aspects of the human body. Click on the eyeball to focus your search.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Anatomy of the Eye
This tutorial looks at the anatomy of the eye and how the sense of sight works. This is the first part of a learning module. Subsequent sections cover how images are formed and detected, the concept of accommodation where the eye adjusts...
Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works: Eyes
How does the eye work? View a video [5 mins. 9 secs.], check out an article, take a quiz, do an activity, and complete a word search with this comprehensive resource.
Curated OER
Kids Health: How Eyes Work
How do we see what we see? The eye works all day from the moment you wake up to the moment you close them to go to sleep. Let's take a tour of the amazing eye! Included is a video, an article, quiz, activity and word find.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: The Human Eye
Written by a former author of Biology textbooks, this page describes not only color vision, but the anatomy of the eye, and color blindness. Easy to understand language.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Scale Model of Human Eye
A scale model of the human eye is shown. Information about the parts of the eye and the common defects that result from its malfunctioning.
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: The Eye
Easy to understand description of the parts of the eye and their functions. Lots of labeled illustrations. At the bottom of the page additional content includes games, quizzes, lesson plans and activities about vision.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Eye Cross Section
Test your knowledge of the human eye with this interactive labeling exercise.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Eye
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary about and physiology of the eye.
University of Kansas Medical Center
University of Kansas Medical Center: Eye & Ear
Understand the structure and function of the eye and ear cells by examining these microscopic tissue samples.
Other
Vision Direct: The Human Eye
Explore this interactive visual to learn the parts of the eye, what the function of each is, and how they work together to give us the ability to see.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pupil
Try this experiment to see how light affects the size of your pupils.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Seeing Your Retina
Try this experiment where you examine the blood vessel network of your retina and the eye's blind spot. Includes a safety precaution.
Other
Live Binders: Virtual Eye Dissection
Take a look at a diagram of the eye, know its anatomy, physiology, and virtually dissect it.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Passed the Eye Test?
Match the right set of eyes with a famous celebrity. Can you get all 10 questions correct?