BrainU 101 Binder

These sections may be downloaded below.

Section 1: Agenda, Diamante poem

Section 2: Defining Inquiry

Part I: The Inquiry Cycle, Continuum of Teaching Approaches, ...Talked to an Ice Cube, Inquiry Is Not/Is, Misconceptions about Inquiry Teaching

Part II: Teaching for Understanding, Constructing Scientific Knowledge in the Classroom, Inquiry Within chart, Getting Started with Science Notebooks, Reforming cookbook labs,

Section 3: Neuroscience

Neuroscience in the Classroom, Stress and the Brain presentation and article, NIDA notes: Basics of Brain Imaging, New Movement in Parkinson's, C. elegans info

Section 4: Class Activities

Part I: Sheep Brain Dissection, Close-up of Your Nervous System, Connect the Neurons!

Part II: Altered Reality, What is Thinking?, Physical Neuron, Virtual Neuron, C. elegans lessons: Caeno-What? & Chemotaxis; Recency and Primacy Effect

Section 5: Additional Resources

Part I: Neuroscience Lesson Plan Glossary, Dissection As Inquiry, The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3, How-To-Do-It: Easy Extraction of Roundworms from Earthworm Hosts

Part II: Who Says A Woman Can't Be Einstein?