Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Evolution of the Eye

9th - 10th
Zoologist Dan-Erik Nilsson demonstrates how the complex human eye could have evolved from simple light-sensitive cells. From a PBS show called "Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea." Includes background reading material and discussion...
Instructional Video
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain

9th - 10th
The story of a woman who lost her vision after a stroke. Her primary visual cortex was severely damaged. But then she began to see rain and other moving water. [3:34]
Instructional Video
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: The Sense of Sight

9th - 10th
Describes the important structures of the human eye and how they work so that we can see images. [4:47]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Nervous System Physiology: Sight: Visual Sensory Information

9th - 10th
This video looks at the sense of sight and how light hits the photoreceptors in the eye, communicates with the brain, and translates the information into images we can see.