Science Project: The Human Eye

We are studying the human eye for science. I was looking for a good picture to use as a model from which to pattern our own model.


I found a great cornstarch clay recipe here. It worked beautifully!

Jonathan stirring and heating the salt/water mixture Ryan mixing the cornstarch and water

Justin molding the dough

I didn't get pictures of everyone mixing the food coloring in, but I would have gotten it all over the camera!
I used a black magic marker to outline the iris and make the pupil.

Jonathan had cornstarch all over his face!

I used a wooden kabob skewer to keep it in place

Here is the optic nerve trailing behind

I realize it is not an extremely complex model, but trying to place a clear cornea over the outside of the iris seems a little difficult as well as filling the eyeball full of liquid.

I did have an idea for the cornea though... I thought of those plastic bubbles you get in a gumball machine.

Below are the Youtube documentaries we watched: