Mindflex Activity

Students use the Mindflex™ game to explore and measure different homeostatic autonomic nervous system functions while trying to figure out how the game works.

Memory Items

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

Makes Me Sweat

Students study the body's response to stress.

Dendritic Spines Lab

Students investigate how neurons change their connectivity when exposed to the drug morphine.

C. elegans and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Thank you to Laura Kleven and Eric Colchin of Johnson Aerospace and Engineering High School for sharing with us the lesson they presented at the Space Exploration Educators Conference (SEEC 2013).

Virtual Neurons

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

Fishy Behavior

Students design, conduct, and analyze a controlled experiment testing the effects of alcohol (or nicotine) on zebrafish learning, a model neural system. This is a lateral view. For the dorsal view, visit Go Fish!

Go Fish!

Students design, conduct, and analyze a controlled experiment testing the conditions for zebrafish, model neural system, to learn to recognize (or ignore) a stimulus. This is a dorsal view. For the lateral view, visit Fishy Behavior.

Manduca sexta: Caterpillar Dissection

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

Close-up of the Nervous System

Students view slides of brain tissue under a microscope then describe and identify structures.

Experiment