Neuroscience Concepts & Activities

Click the links below to visit pages featuring neuroscience concepts and activities organized by grade levels. The scaffolding of these concepts does not follow any particular published set of standards. They come from Dr. Janet Dubinsky's experience in the BrainU, Brain Awareness Week, and Brain Bee programs. Some text was taken from the Neuroscience Core Concepts, Society for Neuroscience www.brainfacts.org/About-Neuroscience/Core-Concepts.

Grades Pre-3

Grades 4-6

Grades 7-8

Grades 9-12

Lessons, images, and animations relating to the following topics are grouped on these pages:

Addiction

Memory

Synapses

Identifying Neurons