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Card Sort

playing cardsThis lesson explores the relationship between motor response time and cognitive load, using a simple deck of playing cards. It offers opportunity to explore data analysis and critique experimental design.

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 1 class period

What's the Deal? Addiction Card Game

boys playing cards in 1935Students play a game that models the unknown potential for individual addiction, as well as some scientific inquiry processes. This lesson is based on information originally from the NIH curriculum The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology through the Study of Addiction.

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 1 class period

Phantom Limb

Exploring how vision can alter self-perception

Bead Neuron

Bead neuron pictureStudents will make bead neurons and use them as models to understand the specialized cellular structure and function of neurons and how neurons communicate with each other.

Grade Level: 5-12

Lesson Length: 1 class period

C. elegans and Alcohol

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

Manduca sexta: Caterpillar Dissection

Students observe and dissect a Manduca sexta caterpillar to learn about the structure and function of an invertebrate nervous system.

Manduca sexta Wax Model

Students construct a wax model of the nervous system of the caterpillar, Manduca sexta.

Memory Items

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

Mirror Image

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

Motor Learning and Memory

Students will measure reaction time during tasks of increasing complexity.