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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.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity about afterimages, learners explore what happens when receptor cells called cones in your eye's retina get tired.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a Benham Top to explore visual illusions and optics.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (17th on the page), learners investigate why you cannot see colors in dim light.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners discover that when they rotate a special black and white pattern called a Benham's Disk, it produces the illusion of colored rings.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes