Students in Alex Randhava's Grade 7 Science classes utilized the Mozart building's third floor to collect data on human vision to better understand how humans evolved. We know how the eye is structured, and we also know that different animals see the world in different ways. Predators tend to have binocular vision, while nocturnal animals have different balances of light-sensitive cells. So what about humans? What kind of vision do we have, and why did it develop this way? 

To begin, students tested their ability to detect movement in their peripheral vision. This data will help shape what they explore next, but early results already suggest something interesting: our ancestors likely benefited from being able to notice what was happening around and even behind them.