FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Vision Demos:

• Pen top Demo to show distribution of Rods, Cones and Color Vision in the Retina.
• The Optic Nerve and the Blind Spot – Try these blind spot demos below:
  • Chudler Site at Washington University
  • Here is one using your fingers
• How does the Pulfrich Illusion demonstrate the differing processing speeds of Rods & Cones?
  • The Pullfrich Effect Can Create 3-D Vision - Cover your LEFT Eye with Sunglass Lens but keep BOTH eyes open!
    • What causes this? An explanation (3 min)
    • Here are some others to try! - Cover your RIGHT Eye with Sunglass Lens and look with BOTH eyes open.
    • Not in class? Here is what we did... Pulfrich Illusion.
  • Flip It! Video: Feature Detectors (2 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain how the trichromatic theory explains color vision at the cone level.
• Compare the trichromatic and opponent-process theories of color vision.
• How are both of the theories on color vision correct?

AGENDA:

• Module 1.6b - Color Vision Power Point (Virtual Lecture)
• Trichromatic Theory for color vision:
  • Trichromatic Theory Explained (0:00 - 2:20) - How a color TV/Monitor works
  • What colors do other animals see? - (NY Times article - Use your school email to access this Digital Pass) - It's more than just being lazy.
• Opponent Process Theory for color:
  • Brain Games Video Season 3 Episode 2 - Living Color (Season 3, Episode 2):
    • 0:00 - 4:10 Opponent Process Theory demo (Can start at 3:00 mark instead)
    • 4:10 -  5:00 Opponent Process Theory explained
    • 5:00 - 7:16 Color Blind Explained
    • 7:16 -  8:40 Visible Light -  Electromagnetic Spectrum (how sight adapts for each species)
      
      
• FUN WITH OUR VISION (DEMOS & VIDEOS):
  • Review all things Vision with Crash Course A&P Vision (10 min)
  • Review how vision works with Your Central Visual Field Diagram
  • Additive Color Mixing - Try some color mixing lights on your own.
  • RGB Slider: See how three colors can mix to create all the colors that you see.
  • Colorblind Tests:
    • Are you Color Blind? Try this test
    • What's it like to be Color Blind? - Colour Blind Awareness Site
    • Colour Blind Simulator
    • Real World Problems with Color Blindness
  • Afterimages:
    • Revisiting the Afterimage - A quick demo
    • More fun with afterimages - Try THIS. Like it? Try THIS ONE too!
    • Little Old Man Afterimage Illusion
  • Can a Blind Person Paint Colorful Realistic Paintings? (2 min)
  • What are “floaters” in your eye? - Let Stewie from Family Guy explain and then find out by reading this short online article
  • Wonder what the world is like for a Blind Person? Check on Tommy Edison's Youtube channel where he answers your questions.
    • Describing Colors to Blind People
    • What Do Blind People See?
    • Guessing the Colors of Scented Markers
    • If I Could See, Would I?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 1.6c: Hearing (pg. 135-142) - due TOMORROW
• Vision Quiz over Module 1.6b on WEDNESDAY. Study your notes and textbook!
  • Use our Module 1.6b: Vision Notes & Color Vision Notes to review
  • Vision Practice Quiz
  • Mr. Sinn's Human Eye & Color (8 min)
  • Review all things Vision with Crash Course A&P Vision (10 min)
  • Review how vision works with Your Central Visual Field Diagram
  • Review Vision using the Kid's Health Online Video Review (5 min)
  • Quick Review of the Eye and it's parts (2 min)
  • Review parts of vision with demos from the Hanover College Website
  • Review Color Vision using the demos at this part of the Hanover College Website
  • Review more on your own using this printable Eye Quick Guide
  • Textbook Website Flashcards
  • Come up with a mnemonic device to help us remember (+1 extra credit):
    
    • The order of the parts used in vision,
      
    • Different types of vision problems
      
    • The difference between trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: complete the Extra Credit Summary Sheet (copies available in classroom handouts box). + 1 point.
  • Do Colors Effect Emotions? Read this formal study on what researchers have found
• Colors - Radio Lab episodes on our color perception - choose one of the three to listen to and write a short summary on what you learned and how it can be applied to the principles we learned about color vision. (+1 point)

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Organize the Parts of Vision as a Class with our Eye Parts Chain.

Opponent Process Theory for color:

• Brain Games Video Season 3 Episode 2 - Living Color (Season 3, Episode 2):
  • 0:00 - 4:10 Opponent Process Theory demo (Can start at 3:00 mark instead)
  • 4:10 -  5:00 Opponent Process Theory explained
  • 5:00 - 7:16 Color Blind Explained
  • 7:16 -  8:40 Visible Light -  Electromagnetic Spectrum (how sight adapts for each species)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• How does sensory adaption take place for vision?
• Describe the physical properties of sound waves that effect our hearing.
• What are the parts of hearing and their functions?

AGENDA:

• Sensory Adaptation: Displacement Goggles Demo – Does the person adapt visually or through their motor processes?
• Sensory Adaptation - Inverted Vision (4 min) - Can you adapt to an upside down world?
  • See Displacement Goggles Weddings segment of Brain Games (3 min) Season 6: Episode 4 (start at 6:30)
  • Shooting a Basketball with Inversion Goggles (2 min)
    
    
• Module 1.6c: Hearing PP Notes: (Virtual Lesson up to Cochlea)
• Begin labeling the parts of the ear diagram and explain their role in hearing.
  • Test What Frequencies You Can Hear!
    • Automatic Online Tone Generator - Careful, this gets really loud and high pitched!
    • Manual Online Tone Generator - Slide the bar to hear different tones and find out your limits.
    • Noise Addicts Hearing Test - Here is another test that you have more control over what you hear. Choose from 8,000 Hz up to 22,000 Hz.
  • Toilet Paper Roll Demo over one ear.  Sound Localization
  • Review the process of hearing with this Video (3 min)
    
    
• On Your Own:
  • REVIEW KEY CONCEPTS FROM TODAY'S LESSON:
    • Mr. Sinn's Review of Hearing (5 min)
    • Need something a bit more thorough? Try this 5 minute video from the Khan Academy.
    • The Mechanics of Hearing (8 min) - How does the process of hearing work?
    • Sound Localization expained (5 min) - Where did that sound come from?
    • Frequency vs Place Theory:
      • Flip It! Place & Frequency Theory Explained (4 min)
      • Place Theory explained (3 min)
      • Frequency Theory explained (3 min)
    • Textbook Flashcards for Module 20
    • Review parts of hearing using Crash Course A & P # 17 (10 min)
    • Learn More about Hearing and Hearing Loss with this amazing Infographic
    • Music to Your Brain - A quick pdf review of how we hear music.

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 1.6c: Hearing (pg. 135-142) - due TOMORROW
• Vision Quiz over Module 1.6b on TOMORROW. Study your notes and textbook!
  • Use our Module 1.6b: Vision Notes & Color Vision Notes to review
  • Vision Practice Quiz
  • Mr. Sinn's Human Eye & Color (8 min)
  • Review all things Vision with Crash Course A&P Vision (10 min)
  • Review how vision works with Your Central Visual Field Diagram
  • Review Vision using the Kid's Health Online Video Review (5 min)
  • Quick Review of the Eye and it's parts (2 min)
  • Review parts of vision with demos from the Hanover College Website
  • Review Color Vision using the demos at this part of the Hanover College Website
  • Review more on your own using this printable Eye Quick Guide
  • Textbook Website Flashcards
  • Come up with a mnemonic device to help us remember (+1 extra credit):
    
    • The order of the parts used in vision,
      
    • Different types of vision problems
      
    • The difference between trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Module 1.6d: Skin, Chemical & Body Senses (pg. 143- 157) for THURSDAY.

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Put the part of vision and hearing in order!

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Show what you know about the sense of sight!
• What are the parts of hearing and their functions?
• Explain how Frequency and Place Theory help us hear sounds.
• Which theory does a cochlear implant verify as being true for hearing?

AGENDA:

• VISION QUIZ TODAY! - Review diagram, structures & functions, color vision theories
  • When finished, explore how mixing just 3 colors can create all the colors that you see!
    • Additive Color Mixing - Try some color mixing lights on your own.
    • RGB Slider: See how three colors can mix to create all the colors that you see
  
  
• FINISH UP HEARING: Module 1.6c: Hearing PP Notes: (Virtual Lesson - Cochlea to END)
  • Review the tranduction process of hearing with this Video (3 min)
  • Cochlear implants providing hearing to the deaf.
    • Cochlear Implants for the Hearing Impared: Scientific American Frontiers: Every Sound is a Present (Click on Season 15: Episode 9 (Cyber Senses): watch up to 13:50 min) to see how a Cochlear Implant works (warning - this shows some of the surgery).
      • *What is it like to hear with an cochlear implant?
      • If time allows:
        • How a Cochlear Implant works (3 min)
        • Hearing sound for the first time (3 min)
          

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Module 1.6d: Skin, Chemical & Body Senses (pg. 143- 157) for TOMORROW.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: A quick review of vision & hearing:

• With a Partner:
  • Explain the process of trichromatic theory & opponent process theory.
  • Explain the process of place theory and frequency theory.
    • Watch... Flip It! Place & Frequency Theory Explained (4 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• TOUCH & PAIN:
  • Identify the skin senses and the sensory receptors associated with each.
  • Explain how gate-control theory accounts for the process of feeling pain.
  • Name and describe the neurotransmitters associated with pain.
• VESTIBULAR (BALANCE) & KINESTHETIC/PROPRIOCEPTION (BODY AWARENESS):
  • Describe the parts and their functions for vestibular sense. What are the receptor cells that tranduce balance for us?
  • Explain the process that makes us dizzy
  • Describe the parts and their functions for kinesthetic sense/proprioception. What are the receptor cells that tranduce body position for us?

AGENDA:

• TOUCH, PRESSURE & PAIN:
• Module 1.6d: Touch, Pressure and Pain PowerPoint. (Virtual Lecture)
  • Fill in your Pain Diagram (on the back of you Smell Diagram) as you go over the pain portion of the notes.
  • Review how Pain works using the Flip it! video (4 min)
  • Cold + Warm = Hot  Hand Dipping Demo:
    • Leave your hand in a bowl of ice water for a minute and then place it in a warm (not hot) bowl of water. Notice what you actually feel.
  • Skin Sensitivity Demo:
    • Touch your index finger to your lips.  Where do you feel it? 
    • Now touch the same index finger to your ankle.  Where do you feel that?
  • Would life without pain be a good thing?
  • *Watch this Gabby Gingras - girl who is has no pain sensation (5 min).
  • Read more about this disorder HERE.
  • Get an update on Gabby from Oprah (50 min)
  • See a more detailed segment on People Who Feel No Pain from 60 Minutes (12 min)
    
• VESTIBULAR SENSE (BALANCE) & KINESTHETIC/PROPRIOCEPTION (BODY AWARENESS)
  • Module 1.6d: Body Position & Movement PowerPoint. (Virtual Lecture)
    • *What's the Vestibular Sense & how does it work? Try watching this brief video clip (2 min)
    • Why is kinesthetic sense/proprioception so important?
      • Life without Proprioception (Body Awareness) - The interesting case of Ian Waterman:
        • *Watch first 2:45 of this documentary for an intro. (watch 0:00-2:40 and 7:05-17:16 if time allows)
        • Short on time? Watch How did Ian Waterman overcome this obstacle? (3:50-END 4 min)
        • ON YOUR OWN: You can watch the entire 50 minute documentary in 4 parts HERE
  • BALANCE DEMOS TO TRY ON YOUR OWN:
    • Vestibular Sense Activity – Falling Down Activity
      • How does sight aid in balance? –spin demo. (do with a partner as a spotter!)
      • Stand on one leg with eyes open and then closed.  Which is harder?
      • Spin for 30 seconds with eyes closed and then stop.  What do you feel?  Repeat this time with eyes open.  Which takes longer to recover from and why?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• You should have read Modules 1.6a-d by now. If you haven't do so tonight!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• QUIZ OVER HEARING ON MONDAY - STUDY!
• EXTRA CREDIT: Complete the Extra Credit Summary Sheet (copies available in classroom handouts box). + 1 point (limit 2 points per unit).
  • Nasal Ranger - Helping People Understand the Serious Science of What they Smell (NY Times Article)
  • A Food Critic Loses Their Sense of Smell (23 min) - What's it like to lose your smell when your job depends on it?
  • Cybersenses (25 min)- How modern technology is giving back senses to people - Click on Scientific American Frontiers Season 15: Episode 9
  • Can Psychology Help with Chronic Pain? (NY Times Article)
  • Inside Ouch - Radio Lab (25 min) - Listen to the 3 stories of pain: A person tries to rate the nastiness of insect bites, an attempt to demystify the pain of childbirth and a person who chronicles their own battle with chronic pain.
  • Where Am I? Radio Lab (60 min) - This three part episode looks at phantom limbs, Proprioception & the amazing case of Ian Waterman, and out of body experiences. Summarize each, explain how they relate to what we've learned and explain your opinion and thoughts on this topic. + 1 point for each part = 3 pts.
  
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: What happens when our senses interact? The McGurk Effect - Is hearing believing or seeing? How what you see can affect what you hear. (3 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• What does the McGurk Effect tell us about sensory interaction?
• What is life like without our senses?

AGENDA:

• Cochlear implants providing hearing to the deaf.
  • Cochlear Implants for the Hearing Impared: Scientific American Frontiers: Every Sound is a Present (Click on Season 15: Episode 9 (Cyber Senses): watch up to 13:50 min) to see how a Cochlear Implant works (warning - this shows some of the surgery).
• Why is kinesthetic sense/proprioception so important?
  • Life without Proprioception (Body Awareness) - The interesting case of Ian Waterman:
    • *Watch first 2:45 of this documentary for an intro. (watch 0:00-2:40 and 7:05-17:16 if time allows)
    • Short on time? Watch How did Ian Waterman overcome this obstacle? (3:50-END 4 min)
  
  
• HEARING KAHOOT - play in class version

ASSIGNMENTS:

• QUIZ OVER HEARING - MONDAY! STUDY!!!
  • Study your notes & diagram from Module 1.6c.
  • Hearing Kahoot - play on your own

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 2.1a: Influences on Perception (pages 165-174) - Due MONDAY AFTER BREAK.
  • Use your study outline found in our Google Classroom to help you!