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Eyeball

From Bill Nye the Science Guy · 1994

Eyeball
23 min3rd4th5th6thScienceHealth
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Summary

Bill explores how your eye gathers light and turns it into signals your brain reads as a picture of the world.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Bill explores how your eye gathers light and turns it into signals your brain reads as a picture of the world..

  1. How does light get inside your eye?
  2. What does the brain have to do with seeing?
  3. Why do your pupils change size in bright and dim light?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: pupil, lens, retina.

Try it: Watch a partner's pupils in bright and dim light and describe what changes and why.