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This 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

Students 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

Exploring how vision can alter self-perception

Students 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

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

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

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

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.