Mirroring Emotions

Students explore emotions and the behavioral aspects of empathy through mirroring the emotions of other students while watching emotionally evocative videos.

Mirror Image

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

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.

Inquiry Cubes

Students practice observation and questioning skills using inquiry puzzle cubes.

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.

Neurotransmission Model

Students design and build a physical model of neurotransmission.

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