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.

Everything you wanted to know about keeping your brain healthy. How should you nourish your brain, how should your brain be protected, and even how to "renew" or stimulate your brain.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cells, like these nerve cells, do not work in isolation. To send orders from your brain to your legs, for example, signals pass through many nerve cells. These cells...

From the PBS series, this history traces our quest to understand the human brain with an extensive timeline.

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).

Can you name the bones of the human skull? Test your knowledge by matching the correct label with the correct bone.

This lesson reinforces comprehension of key facts and concepts in the student article "The Awesomely Evolved Human Brain." Students will understand that the brain's reward system has evolved to help ensure the survival of the species....

A large PDF unit that teaches students about the human body systems. Incorporates many activities and integrates math and language arts.

Students learn about the similarities between the human brain and its engineering counterpart, the computer. Since students work with computers routinely, this comparison strengthens their understanding of both how the brain works and...

An interactive labeling exercise helps students practice naming parts of the human brain.

Shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain is extremely difficult to observe in action. Madeline Lancaster shares how to make a brain in a lab.

How the brain works and how it ties to coping skills in the pre-teen are the focus of this website. Informative links for both students and adults.

This site from Bartleby.com contains an intense, in-depth article from Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body on the fore-brain or prosencephalon. The article discusses the thalamus throughout and touches on its functions as a whole.

Take this interactive, ten-question quiz about the human brain. Read facts about this important organ after each questions is answered, and then get your score.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the human brain. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...

This educators guide shows students how the body's brain, spinal cord and network of nerves control the activities of animals and humans.

With the challenge to program computers to mimic the human reaction after touching a hot object, students program LEGO robots to "react" and move back quickly once their touch sensors bump into something. By relating human senses to...

Detailed color images of the human brain, both normal and with various brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and AIDS dementia.

This interactive site provides all kinds of information regarding the human skull.

Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...

Explore the anatomy of the human body. Click on an organ or other body part to read more about its structure and function, and then try out an interactive activity for that organ.

Students learn about human reflexes, how our bodies react to stimuli and how some body reactions and movements are controlled automatically, without thinking consciously about the movement or responses. In the associated activity,...

A very good comparative study of the sheep brain to our brain. Looking for "Memory", or more precisely the location of memory in the brain.

Eight slides demonstrate the human brain. Please know that the descriptive narrative is fairly short for each slide subject.