The Art of Optical Illusion
What do man-made illusions tell us about patterns in nature?
Core Understandings
The cognitive goals of this unit of study on optical illusion:
  • Discovering more about optical perception, and about perception as a concept
  • Exploring the relationship between attention and perception
  • Exploring illusion and its effect upon optical perception and thus upon attention
  • Exploring how things in nature show similar patterns of illusion and misperception to man-made and fractal illusions
  • Discovering what is a fractal
  • Gathering information via concept webbing
  • Using strategies such as Venn diagramming to collect information and to prepare it for expository writing
  • Taking information from research into graphical organizing constructs
  • Putting research information into a freehand journal