First grade learns the parts of the eye
Source/Author: Gaye Whitecage, First Grade Teacher
January 21, 2016
Upper School anatomy teacher Lisa Peck visited first grade as a guest expert to teach about the parts of an eye and how it works. Students learned:
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- The iris controls the amount of light going into the eye and the color of the iris is the color of the eye.
- Students did an experiment watching each other’s eyes to see if the pupil gets smaller when light is exposed. They then associated that movement to the pupil.
- The fluid inside the eye gives the eye shape.
- The retina in the back of the eye determines color and light or dark.
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