experiment

Under stress the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system is activated. Body temperature rises and, in an effort to maintain normal body temperature, the body starts to sweat. In this exercise, students will be placed in different - potentially stressful - situations and then will measure palm sweating as part of the body’s response to stress.

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 1 class period

Exploring how vision can alter self-perception

Students design, conduct, and analyze a controlled experiment testing the effects of alcohol on the roundworm C. elegans.

In this activity, students learn about memory capacity and different ways to remember things.

Students perform a task that involves procedural memory and discover that repetition is key to becoming efficient at the task.

Students will measure reaction time during tasks of increasing complexity.

Students investigate visual-motor learning by tossing beanbags at a target while wearing prism goggles.

Spinning a student around in a chair demonstrates how the vestibular system senses different types of circular motion.

Students explore the connection between the 5 senses and the brain by exercising each sense in short experiments.

Students use the Virtual Neurons software to construct neural circuits and visualize how messages travel through the circuits.