Your eyes will undoubtedly play tricks on you.
Are your eyes playing tricks on you? They will, when you look into your Mind's Eye! Astonish yourself with optical illusions as you explore the science of human perception in this fascinating kit from Thames & Kosmos.
Find your blind spot and watch things disappear. Use special glasses to detect the errors in a counterfeit bill. Spot the blood vessels in your eye. Make a curved line look straight. Turn cardboard transparent. See the world shrink. Make white by mixing red, green and blue, and see colors in black and white! Learn first-hand how your eye and brain work together to perceive color, light, depth, perspective, size, shape and motion.
Activities:
- investigate eyes and cameras
- learn the biology of the eye
- find out how the eye communicates with the brain
- experiment with how we perceive size, distance, depth, perspective, color, brightness, shapes and motion
Experiment Manual:
Conduct over 94 experiments, guided by the full-color, 100-page Experiment Manual. Follow the engaging conversation between two young experimenters, Lucas and Katherine, as you perform the experiments and make discoveries alongside them.
Ages 10 and up
96-page Manual
94 Experiments
Contents:
Experiment Manual - Rotating Disk - Motor - Solar Cell - Prisms - Lenses - Colored Films - Foils - String of Beads - 12 Die-Cut Cards - 2 Transparency Sheets - Wires - Straws - Tubing - Tracing Paper - Shoelace - And More!
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