Summary
What does the world look like through a bug's eyes? Deep Look builds simulations of insect vision to show how compound eyes see light, motion and color very differently from the way we do -- and why that helps insects survive.
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Discussion questions
Talk about it
Insects have compound eyes made of many tiny lenses, so they see a mosaic of the world and are great at detecting fast motion. Light reflecting off objects enters those eyes and the brain makes sense of it -- just built differently from ours.
- How is an insect's compound eye different from your eye?
- What are insect eyes especially good at noticing?
- How does light get from an object into an animal's eye?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: compound eye, lens, light, vision.
Try it: Look through a plastic berry basket or mesh at a moving hand. Write how many tiny lenses help an insect spot fast motion.