Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: The Bite Stuff

Investigate the three types of memory: sensory, short-term and long-term, and explore tricks and techniques that can improve long-term memory. Conduct five basic challenges to test, explore and improve memory skills.

Explore scientific research saying that continued brain activity may delay or slow the loss of memory function. Investigate and practice different techniques to increase recall.

Make inferences about the structure and function of human hands. Investigate the relationship between hand actions and recorded points of contact by exploring hand grasps of a pencil and a broom handle.

Explore efforts to return parts of the American prairie using controlled cultivation and grazing. Compare and contrast the effects of various levels of ground shade on new seedlings.

Explore the vocabulary and vocalizations in chimpanzee communications and connect them to emotions. Develop and participate in a field study of animal behavior based on observations and interactions with dogs

Explore the concept of the calorie. Determine the calories/gram of the burned food by measuring its mass, and make conclusions about the experimental design.

Investigate the scientific principles of biospheres, and observe the effects of biological processes on closed systems.

Investigate how the brain can be fooled into incorrectly processing sensory information. Conduct an experiment to fool someone into thinking you've touched his or her hand.

Explore the relationship between pressure and vessel diameter and create a model that represents how elevated blood pressure may affect weakened vessels. Design and critique a repair device.

Explore the work of geneticists and understand the technique of electrophoresis and what it is used for. Assemble a gel chamber for separating mixtures through gel electrophoresis.