Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reflect: Keep Going. Keep Growing
Not all strategies for overcoming frustration work for everyone. You have to find out which strategies work best for you! Use the reflection questions below to develop your own plan to keep going, keep growing when you get frustrated.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Learn: The Growth Mindset
This article showcases the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
Curated OER
Univ. Of Washington: Neuroscience for Kids
"Created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system," this extensive University of Washington site offers information, resources, games, and activities galore. Offers dozens of links to related...
Curated OER
Univ. Of Washington: Neuroscience for Kids
"Created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system," this extensive University of Washington site offers information, resources, games, and activities galore. Offers dozens of links to related...
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Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
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Go Noodle
This free site (requires registration) offers videos that encourage "mind breaks" during the school day. Short videos get kids up and moving for a couple of minutes to help them use excess energy productively and then settle down to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Got It
Sharpen your logical thinking and see if you can figure out the strategy to get to the target number before the computer.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Maintaining Students' Motivation for Learning as the Year Goes On
This article explores the idea that neuroscience can suggest ways to keep students working toward their learning goals after their initial excitement wears off. Included are ways to provide choice to invigorate students' motivation,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Smell
Understand how the sense of smell has strong connection to the limbic region of the brain and experience how the brain associates smells with memories and emotions.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Phenakistascope
Explore how the eye and brain interpret a series of pictures as motion by building a spinning motion picture show from a paper plate.
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American: Uncovering a Signal
An activity in which students analyze simulated brain signals and attempt to determine which signals control which muscle activity, imitating the manner in which a computer attempts to decipher brain signals for use in bionics.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Lateral Inhibition
An activity that will have you questioning which is in control, your eyes or your brain? This activity has students constructing simple paper tubes to investigate how the eyes work.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Far Out Corners
An activity with an optical illusion that will have your eyes seeing a cluster of boxes but is it really boxes? In this activity, explore this illusion and what happens to trick your brain to seeing what it sees.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hole in Your Hand
Create an optical illusion with this activity. Understand what your brain interprets if it receives conflicting information from your eyes.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Eyes
Your eyes see, but how does vision happen? Find out how the eyes and brain work together through this video and accompanying activity guide. [6:09]
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Community Resources for Science: Seeing Is Believing?
This lesson plan focuses on the parts of our bodies that we use to see and how the brain actually causes changes in what we see. Specific instructions and talking points are provided along with multiple activities for the students to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: I Know Why I Like Pie
Active, imaginative teaching with nursery rhymes takes advantage of how the brain learns best! In this lesson, students will use a Venn Diagram to compare "Little Jack Horner" to "Sing a Song of Sixpence"
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Worksheets
This university site contains lessons, games and worksheets that are ready to print out.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Problem Solving Database
Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...
University of Washington
University of Washington: The Senses Touch
Do you know what the largest sensory organ of the body is? Use this site on skin and its sense of touch to learn more.
University of Washington
Our Sense of Hearing Experiment: Locating Sound Sources
Have you ever wondered how your ear works? This website will provide you with knowledge on how to locate sound sources among other ear information.
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Middle Tennessee State University: Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.
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Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners
How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.