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Create 3D glasses and use them to explore color, light and optics. Fool your brain into 'seeing' three dimensions on a flat surface!

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 explore their eye pupils and how they change.

In this activity, learners estimate risks associated with different events and compare their estimates to the real possibilities.

In this activity, learners conduct a simple test to find their blind spot.

In this quick optics activity, learners use a dim point of light (a disassembled Mini MagLite and dowel set-up) to cast a shadow of the blood supply in their retina onto the retina itself.

In this activity about light and perception, learners create pictures in thin air.

Create an illusion where it appears that your hand has a hole in it. You'll see the results from when one eye gets conflicting information.

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

Which one of your eyes are dominant? Do they act independently or are they equally "in control?" This activity explores how your eyes work (or don't work) together.

Do you have a hard time matching paint swatches with your furniture? When you consider human perception, color is context dependent.

In this lab (Activity #1 on page), learners explore how we see color.

In this demonstration, amaze learners by performing simple tricks using mirrors. These tricks take advantage of how a mirror can reflect your right side so it appears to be your left side.

In this activity about light and perception, learners discover how a flash of light can create a lingering image called an "afterimage" on the retina of the eye.

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

In this activity, learners discover that it's difficult to distinguish between two different shades of gray when they aren't separated by a boundary.

How can you make one shade of gray look like two? By putting it against two different color backgrounds! This activity allows learners to perform this sleight of hand very easily.

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

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

In this fun optics activity, learners explore principles of light, reflection (mirrors), and perception. Learners work in pairs and sit on opposite sides of a "two-way" mirror.