Curated OER
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...
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Giraffe: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Skills
In this visual perception/fine motor skills activity, students trace the broken lines on a picture of a giraffe, then finish coloring the picture.
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Every Picture Tells A Story 2
Young scholars 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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Never the Way They Seem (Effect of Frequency)
An MIT mathematics teacher presents a module on a particular effect of frequency called the stroboscopic effect. Students will learn about low and high frequency phenomena, the stroboscope, and real-life examples of the stroboscopic....
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Proect Ideas: Investigating Inattentional Blindness
The goal of this human behavior science fair project is to investigate inattentional blindness and visual perception and see what percentage of a test population notices an unexplained object in a video. The Science Buddies project ideas...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: An Experiment in Visual Perception
Graphical methods of data presentation are a key feature of scientific communication. This project will get you thinking about how to find the best way to communicate scientific information.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Optical Illusions
Try these great optical illusions yourself, and read the explanation of how your brain fools your eyes. You will need Shockwave to run these properly.
Other
All Psych: Chapter 5: Section 3: Perception
Through studying the sensory system this article will help learners evaluate the power of perception through visual sensation.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Persistence of Vision
This experiment demonstrates how the eye retains its memory of what it sees for a brief time, allowing us to construct the overall image in our minds from the parts we see.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gestalt Principles and Ratings of Physical Attractiveness
This is a five-question quiz based on the passage "Gestalt Principles and Ratings of Physical Attractiveness"
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Desvanecimiento Del Punto
An optical illusion that demonstrates the effect of eye movement on perception.