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