Explore how your eyes and brain team up to help you see — even when they don’t work quite the way you’d expect! Tune in as we meet Dr. Lucas Nadolskis, a researcher working to restore vision to blind people by understanding what the brain does with the signals it gets. Along the way, discover how the eye is like — and unlike — a camera, and why a scientist’s own experience can be one of their sharpest tools.
In This Lesson
This lesson contains several resources developed to help students follow the podcast and dig into how vision really works.
For students, it includes a Listening Guide that they can use to follow along with the podcast while they listen to it one section at a time, as well as an episode transcript.
For teachers, the Resource Packet contains lesson plans, standards alignment, suggestions on how to use this podcast in class, as well as activity instructions and other printouts to give to students.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
- NGSS 4-PS4-2: Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
Common Core Standards
- Common Core ELA/Literacy RI.4.7: Interpret information presented visually or orally and explain how the information contributes to understanding.