Efectos de Recencia y Primacía

Las palabras que se encuentran al final de la lista están todavía en la memoria de corto plazo (efecto de recencia) al momento de ser recordadas.

Modelo de Neurona de Cuentas o Mostacillas

Los estudiantes confeccionan neuronas de cuentas (mostacillas) y las usan como modelos para entender su estructura especializada, su función y la forma en qué se comunican entre ellas.

Lección para estudiantes de 10 a 18 años de edad
Grado o Nivel: 5-12
Duración: 1 clase

Bead Neuron Throw-Down

After creating model neurons from colored beads and wire/string, BrainU participants engage in the "bead neuron throw-down" where they place their bead neurons on the floor and identify synapses and discuss how messages flow from one neuron to another. Dr. Jan Dubinsky demonstrates the throw-down in this video.

Synaptic Vesicle Release Animation

Created by Dr. Janet Dubinsky, this simple animation shows an axon releasing a synaptic vesicle.

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How to Teach: Connect the Neurons

Visualizing Synapses

Confocal Image Stack A02 courtesy of Blake Ebner and Harry Orr; Text by Jan Dubinsky; Video by Sue Minor

Confocal images of a climbing fiber axon forming synapses on a Purkinje cell and its dendrites emerge as if viewed through a microscope. The most detailed view shows the parts labeled.

How To Teach: Bead Neuron

Bead Neuron with Dr. Jan Dubinsky
Length: 18 minutes 22 seconds

Do The Stroop

Students read two lists of color words - the second of which shows the word printed in a color different from the one the word represents - and ask their peers to identify which of the lists was more challenging and why.

Cruise through hippocampal neuropil

Cruise through hippocampal neuropil in a 5 min 15 sec video animating a section of a rat's brain and the synaptic connections created when the rat learns something new.

WebQuest: Structure of the Nervous System

Exercise your students' web search skills while they learn about the structure and function of the nervous system.

Synapses