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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Optical Illusions Trick Your Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actually are. But how do they work? This learning module walks us through a few common optical illusions and explains what these...
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Other

Brain Connection: Your Brain Health Headquarters

For Students 9th - 10th
A newsletter all about the brain including current research, anatomy and function of the brain, games, quizzes, and more. Animations and pictures make the site appealing to kids, and depth of content make it useful to parents and...
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About Kids Health

About Kids Health: An Overview of the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the brain and how it works in this interactive teaching aid that highlights the anatomy and function of the brain using colorful animated illustrations.
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Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a publication on the human brain and how it works. Gives details on the neuron, how the senses interact with the brain and much more. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Control Central

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What do you know about the brain? In this early learners lesson, learners will explore the basic functions and characteristics of the brain and skull, and also learn about three major structures in the brain: the cerebrum, cerebellum and...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Human Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the human brain, and the role it plays in the nervous system. Students learn about the three main parts of the brain and each of their functions.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Learning Brain: Neuroscience

For Students K - 1st
This series of videos introduces students to the brain, including why it is so special, its parts and functions and how it recalls memories and stores new information. Other videos explain how the brain processes sensory information and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies:brain Body Connection: Can Exercise Make Our Brains Work Better?

For Students 3rd - 6th
We all know physical exercise is important to keeping our bodies fit. But how important is physical exercise to your brain? In other words, is there any connection between an active body and increased brain power? This is an easy project...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Brain Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
Which part of your brain controls your ability to swallow? Your instinct to survive? And how do all the brain's parts function cooperatively? Find out with this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Coma" Web site.
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Cancer Research Uk: The Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
General information about the brain is provided, which includes straightforward diagrams and explanations of how the brain works, parts of the brain, and brain tumors. Links are available to delve deeper into these topics and more.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Pre Assessment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The brain has unique physical characteristics and it is specialized into many different areas, each with a different job. Brain functions and abilities develop over time. Assess student's knowledge of the structure of the brain by having...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How does information from different parts of the body reach the brain? In this lesson young scholars discover that their brains receive and act on information from inside and outside the body, and that the senses gather and process...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Bird Brains

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers a look into the brains of birds. Examine each part of the brain and its function. Click an drag the brain to see a 3-D view.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Brain Respond to Pain?

For Students 9th - 10th
Everyone experiences pain -- but why do some people react to the same painful stimulus in different ways? And what exactly is pain, anyway? This learning module walks you through your brain on pain, illuminating why the "pain experience"...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Brains Behind 'Where's Waldo?'

For Students 9th - 10th
What makes you notice someone in a crowd? Why do some things stand out, while others melt into the background? In this experiment you can investigate the psychology of how things get noticed, by studying how our brains perform a visual...
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Teenage Brains Wired to Be Impatient and Impulsive

For Students 5th - 8th
Article reports on new research that helps explain the functioning of the teenage brain, and how it differs from that of an adult.
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National Institutes of Health

Spatial Short Term Memory Pinpointed in Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine this press release to understand methods used in the science of psychology to pinpoint functions of the brain.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Everyday Science of Your Brain [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Help your middle schoolers understand the function of the brain in both short-term and long-term memory. This lesson plan allows students to test different strategies for improving memory.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Test Your Brain

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Investigate the effect of oxygen deprivation on brain function and test the changes in mental abilities climbers experience as they climb to ever-higher altitudes, in this virtual experiment.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Brain Evolution and Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about brain evolution and development.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everest: Test Your Brain Under Low Oxygen Conditions

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Everest" Web site lets you take the same brain quizzes that researchers have used to test the brain function of climbers on Mount Everest.
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Other

National Museum of Health and Medicine: Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource could be used for higher level biology or anatomy classes. There are over 100 different species of mammals represented and each has information about physical characteristics, distribution, and pictures of the brain. There...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Lobes of the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Site dealing with lobes of the brain. Links to various other sites with lots of information.

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