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Circles or Ovals?
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This science activity demonstrates the dominant eye phenomena. What does your brain do when it sees two images that conflict?

Shrinking Spot
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In this activity, learners control the (apparent) size of a hole with their brain.

Bending Light
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In this optics activity, learners make a lens and explore how the eye manipulates the light that enters it.

Accommodating Accommodation
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In this demonstration (18th on the page), learners conduct a simple test to explore how the cornea refracts light, which is further bent by the eye lens through a process known as accommodation.

CD Spinner
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In this activity, learners create a simple “top” from a CD, marble and bottle cap, and use it as a spinning platform for a variety of illusion-generating patterns.

Color Spy
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In this activity (16th on the page), learners play a variation of the "I Spy" game to explore color. Learners work in teams with each team assigned a color.

Bring it into Focus
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In this activity (page 2 of PDF), learners play with a lens and a piece of paper to focus an image on the paper. Learners look at different things, and see how the lenses affect the image.

Seeing in the Dark
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In this activity (17th on the page), learners investigate why you cannot see colors in dim light.

Giant Lens
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In this activity about light and refraction, learners discover how a lens creates an image that hangs in midair.

Benham's Disk
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In this activity, learners make a Benham Top to explore visual illusions and optics.