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Altered Reality
The human brain is highly adaptable. This activity demonstrates how the brain adapts to a new situation. Students investigate learning to toss beanbags at a target while wearing prism goggles.
Students collect and interpret data and then have an opportunity to design additional experiments.
Grade Level: 5-8
Lesson Length: 1-2 class periods
Altered Reality was the topic of a poster for the November 30, 2010 STEM Center Open House.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Teacher Guide | 75.71 KB |
| Student Guide | 73.59 KB |
| Making Goggles | 168.6 KB |
| Example Graphs | 93.33 KB |
| Documents in MS Word format | 678.46 KB |
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Dynamic Changes in Brain Activity during Prism Adaptation. The Journal of Neuroscience. January 7, 2010, 29(1):169-178. Read the article.
Throwing while looking through prisms: II. Specificity and storage of multiple gaze-throw calibrations. Brain (1996), 119, 1199-1211. Read the article.
Throwing while looking through prisms: I. Focal olivocerebellar lesions impair adaptation. Brain (1996), 119, 1183-1198. Read the article.