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
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