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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 about light and refraction, learners make a lens and magnifying glass by filling a bowl with water.

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

In this activity, learners explore ray optics. Learners discover that they can use a magnifying glass to create an upside-down image.

In this activity about afterimages, learners explore what happens when receptor cells called cones in your eye's retina get tired.

In this activity about light and perception, learners create and observe moire patterns.

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.