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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Test Your Bird Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Have fun with this interactive site by trying to identify birds. Birds are presented on video, you provide the identification, and immediate feedback is given.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Backwards Alphabet Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A "Connect the dots," game for the alphabet backwards. Printable resource for teachers.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Brain Buster Multiplication

For Students 2nd - 8th
Go from rags to riches as you advance through the levels in this "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," type multiplication game.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Number Cracker (Number Series Game)

For Students 2nd - 5th
The Number Cracker needs you to help find a secret code by identifying the missing number in a series.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Fraction Soccer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Compete in a soccer shootout by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. Score goals for your team and block your opponent's shots by answering correctly.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Brain Eater

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the complex relationships among science, public policy and public health, research a disease that poses a public health threat and develop a strategy for limiting the spread of the disease.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Vision

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand how our brain identifies an object, view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Don't Forget! Puzzle Solving: Memory Tests and Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover scientific research that says continued brain activity may help to encourage the strengthening and new growth of inter-cellular connections in the brain. Solve and create puzzles designed to stimulate brain cells.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: A Change of Mind

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the cognitive development of deception and devise a game or mock trial in which one determines who is lying and who is telling the truth. Research brain activity and make a working model of neural divergences using a set of...
Lesson Plan
Econoclass

Econoclass: Resources for Economic Teachers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A site with resources for teachers teaching high school economics.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hearing: How Do Our Ears Work?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the anatomy of the ear and how the ears work as a sound sensor. Ear anatomy parts and structures are explained in detail, as well as how sound is transmitted mechanically and then electrically through them to the...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound From Left or Right?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Why do humans have two ears? How do the properties of sound help with directional hearing? Students learn about directional hearing and how our brains determine the direction of sounds by the difference in time between arrival of sound...
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: For Writer's Notebook: Heart Maps and Writing Topics

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
A heart map is a visual representation of a student's heart, displaying topics that "live" there; these topics are ones the student would show passion about and interest towards when writing about them. In writer's workshop students...
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Braingle

Braingle: Mentalrobics Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th
Exercise your brain and creative thinking. Find daily questions, games, and ideas that will force you to brainstorm, create, imagine, and use your creativity on your own or in a classroom setting.
Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Seeing Is Believing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students investigate the properties of light using simple materials. Includes handout and video resources.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Control Using Sound

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students gain a deeper understanding of how sound sensors work through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT taskbots and sound sensors.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Don't Bump Into Me!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students' understanding of how robotic ultrasonic sensors work is reinforced in a design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and ultrasonic sensors.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design a Bicycle Helmet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal of the activities is for students to understand the basics of engineering associated with safety products. Using a bicycle helmet helps to protect the brain and neck during a crash. In order to do this effectively, helmets must...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How Do I Deal With Frustration in a Positive Way?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Working through our frustration can help us grow our brains and it's also perfectly normal to get frustrated! This article explains four suggested steps for dealing with frustration.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transform My Mistakes and Grow!

For Students 3rd - 8th
To come up with a plan on how to transform our mistakes into opportunities to grow our brains, this article explains three categories of mistakes and how you can overcome them.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Digging for Fossils: Studying Fossils as Evidence for Human Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As students dig for paper fossils, they make observations of brain size, teeth, hands, thumbs, trunks, pelvis, foot and big toes to determine characteristics of chimpanzees and humans. Then, they dig up and analyze a new fossil...
Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Analyzing the Culminating Task

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for the Teen Brain unit.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...

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