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Benham's Disk
Seeing is believing! Or is it? With this simple experiment, young scientists can explore the concept of visual perception. Attach Benham's disk to a rotating appliance such as a hand drill; As it spins, the black lines appear to be...
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How We Perceive Movement, Depth and Illusions
Students examine how depth perception works through a class experiment. They design and perform their own experiment that investigates visual illusions.
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Surface Features
Students identify surface features and orally express visual perception of unusually shaped objects. Students do this in groups for this instructional activity.
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Giraffe: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Skills
For this visual perception/fine motor skills worksheet, students trace the broken lines on a picture of a giraffe, then finish coloring the picture.
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Dragon Maze: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Skills
In this visual perception and fine motor skills worksheet, students "help the dragon get to the castle," completing a maze activity.
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Every Picture Tells A Story 2
Students view various images designed to create a sense of disequilibrium in visual perception. They view the images, decide what they see in each, record their ideas, and write stories based upon their observations.