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Click on the links below to visit websites featuring neuroscience topics and activities:
Neuroscience for Kids - an excellent resource for both teachers and students who want to learn more about the brain and how the nervous system works. It is full of neuroscience activities and information.
faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
BrainWorks TV Program produced April 13, 2006; time: 28:30
NERVE: Neuroscience Education Resources Virtual Encycloportal
Additional Neuroscience Educational Resources are available from the Society for Neuroscience
www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=PublicEducationOutreach_NeurosciEduResources
www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=core_concepts
www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainfacts
IAC/USNC Methods in Neuroscience Manduca sexta segmental ganglia dissection pictures and video
www.iac-usnc.or g/Methods/moth/dissection1.html
SEPA Science Education Partnership Award supported by the National Center for Research Resources, a part of the National Institutes of Health
National Association of Biology Teachers - Neuroscience Laboratory and Classroom Activities publication
www.nabt.org/sites/S1/index.php?p=85
Free online neuroscience videos
scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/09/free_online_neuroscience_vids.php
Brain Art "This is the world's largest extant collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art..." and it has a link to the Wood Brain Art site.
harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/index.htm
The BrainWeb and Brain Resource Center
The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has a wealth of information about the brain, for example, The New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain
learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/
CCSI Consortium of Cognitive Science Instruction - Long-Term Potentiation LTP animation
www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/neurons_intro/flash_LTP.php?modGUI=232&compGUI=1828&itemGUI=3161
The MIND Project - Classic chemical synaptic neurotransmission flash video
www.mind.ilstu.edu/flash/synapse_1.swf
On-Line Multimedia Teaching tool for Neurobiology NSF-funded multimedia Neuroscience education tool in development
Save This Brain
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections - one of the best comparative neuroanatomy sites on the Web
http://www.brainmuseum.org/index.html
For more in-depth pursuit of neuroanatomy, visit BrainMaps.org - an interactive high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope - www.brains-minds-media.org/archive/1426
C. Elegans info at Riddle Lab
SEPA (Science Education Partnership Award) Educational Resources
www.ncrrsepa.org/Ed/overview.asp
NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse Lessons from Prevention Research
www.nida.nih.gov/InfoFacts/lessons.html
MIND OVER MATTER by NIDA, 8 booklets in an envelope as part of NIDA goes back to school
teens.drugabuse.gov/mom/index.asp
Neuroscience and more
www.nigms.nih.gov/Publications/Classroom.htm
Resources and lesson plans for teachers from NIH's Office of Science Education
science.education.nih.gov/home2.nsf/Educational+Resources/
Foundation for Biomedical Research booklet The Importance of Being a Mouse, A.R. Gernhardt
www.fbresearch.org/Education/tabid/377/Default.aspx
Mindboggling publications from DANA Foundation, Dana Press including It's Mindboggling! glossy pamphlet, ¡Es increíble! same thing in Spanish, and Q&A: Answering your Questions about Brain Research
The Dana Initiative - information about the programs, activities, and publications of the Dana Foundation and the Dana Alliance, as well the latest news about the brain. Teachers can also order classroom kits and videos about the brain.
The Brain Connection - tons of brain facts, games, and news about the latest in brain research
Brain Briefings published by the Society for Neuroscience - a clearing house on general neuroscience topics like Alzheimers' Disease, prenatal care of the brain, and brains in space
Brain Awareness Week is an international effort every March to expand the public's knowledge about neuroscience.
For local Brain Awareness Week activities coordinated by the University of Minnesota, visit www.neuroscience.umn.edu/baw/home.html
Kids! Here is BrainPop! - an interactive fun website where you can take quizzes about the brain and learn about other science, health, and technology topics
Sara's Quest, sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse - a good site for looking at how different drugs affect the brain
The Exploratorium's online exhibit about memory - fascinating games involving memory and how it sometimes isn't as accurate as it seems
www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html
Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
North High School Biology class, Anna Beal, teacher
BrainU 202 - Sheep Brain Dissection
north.mpls.k12.mn.us/BrainU_202.html
BrainU 202 - C. elegans Behavior Lab
north.mpls.k12.mn.us/BrainU_202_Pictures----C_Elegans_Behavior_Lab.html
BrainU 202 - Manduca Dissection