Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Color Contrast
Did you know that different-colored backgrounds cause colored objects to look different? In this investigation, students will experience this phenomenon.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Depth Spinner
Observe adaptation and perception in the activity. This activity will have students watching a continuously rotation spiral to see what happens as you watch it and then look away.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Gray Step
An activity to test your perception to see if you can distinguish between different shades of gray.
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Color Matters
Students learn to understand color from a variety of perspectives: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Gcse: Physics: Reflection and Refraction
All waves will reflect and refract in the right circumstances. The reflection and refraction of light explain how people see images, color and even optical illusions. This tutorial discusses each concept and presents an experiment to try...
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Sandlotscience.com: Color Reversing Landscape [Pdf]
Print and color this image from Sandlotscience.com to create a color-reversed illusion.
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Educaplus: La Pared Del Cafe
This optical phenomenon was observed for the first time on the wall of a cafe in Bristol.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Afterimage
The following picture is an example of an afterimage, a type of optical illusion that continues to appear in one's vision even after you finish looking at the original image.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Bezold Effect
The Bezold effect is named after Wilhelm von Bezold, a German professor of meteorology. It is an optical illusion that makes colors look different depending on their relation to adjacent colors. It works with small sections of color...
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Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
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Kodak: Airborne
Beautiful, almost unrealistic, dance photography by Lois Greenfield. Her black and white prints are phenomenal! Lois reveals her secrets and techniques.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Light
Light! How do we see? What makes light? Find out everything you need to know through the Q&As on this site.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Central Visual Pathways
Explore the world of central visual pathways. The visual pathway leads from the eye to the primary visual cortex. There is a detailed visual description of this process. Check it out.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Color Roundup
A PBS site explores color and the effects of seeing lots of colors at the same time. Try it yourself with their home experiment.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Flecha
Can you make the second arrow the same size as the first? You will be surprised.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Create a Thaumatrope
Simple but amazing! Learn how to make a thaumatrope, one of the earliest forms of cinematography. Watch as two images become one right before your eyes.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Create a Zoetrope
A zoetrope, or the "wheel of life," is an early way motion pictures were made. With these easy to follow directions you can create one of your very own using the printable templates.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Growing Up Different: Familiar Faces
Explore the handicap of autism and the inability to recognize faces. Create a mixed-up face with the mouth and eyes flipped upside down and conduct a survey of how five people are able to describe the expression on the face.
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Middle Tennessee State University: Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Looking a Little Spotty
By using digitally manipulated images, test your brain to see how much information is needed for your brain to produce an image.
Read Works
Read Works: Double Vision
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how 3-D televisions work. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do and use...
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Portraits of Charles Ii and His Daughter Christine of Lorraine
An image of "Optical Illusion with Portraits of Charles II and His Daughter Christine of Lorraine", created by Lodovico Buti in 1593 (Oil on prismatic panels, glass, 82 x 112 cm).
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