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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.

In this activity, learners build inexpensive kaleidoscopes using transparency paper and foil (instead of mirrors).

During this hands-on activity, learners are briefly exposed to moviemaking and animation, when they create their own thaumatropes.

In this optics activity, learners build an animation tool to make mini movies. When you spin a phenakistascope, the pictures move so quickly that your eyes and brain can't separate the images.

Design and create an optical illusion toy that makes two pictures appear to become one. This is called a thaumatrope and will allow the learner to investigate the phenomenon of persistence of vision.

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

In this activity, learners make an optical illusion toy from the 1800s to explore persistence of vision.

In this activity, learners will make a thaumatrope, an old-fashioned optical illusion that dates back to the 1820s.

In this activity, learners make a stroboscope--a spinning disk with slits around the edge that you look through.

In this optics activity, learners build a spy tool to secretly view things over walls or around corners.