+
Website
Other

Johns Hopkins Medicine: About Radiosurgery

For Students 9th - 10th
Frequently asked questions about Radiosurgery, a common treatment method of brain tumors. Find out what it is, it's role in the world of medicine and more details.
+
Unit Plan
Other

Get Body Smart: Human Nervous System: Anatomy and Physiology

For Students 9th - 10th
The innovative tutorial investigates the human nervous system. Some topics explored are nerve cells, support cells, neurophysiology, brain, and spinal cord. Visual quizzes are also included.
+
Graphic
Harvard University

Harvard Medical School: Hypothalamus

For Students 9th - 10th
CT scan identifying the hypothalamus. Also identifies some other brain structures.
+
Handout
Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: The Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the main sections of the human brain, and how the structure or each relates to its function.
+
Website
Other

Neurociencias Para Ninos / Neuroscience for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the brain and brain science using this Spanish version of the excellent Neuroscience for Kids site. Translation of the site is a work in progress. Portions are in Spanish but links for many pages still lead to the English...
+
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the brain, spinal cord, and brain cells at this thorough yet easy to read site. Simple sentence construction is used to explain the structure and function of this body system. A glossary is just a click away to explain...
+
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Brain

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the brain, spinal cord, and brain cells at this thorough yet easy to read site. Simple sentence construction is used to explain the structure and function of this body system. A glossary is just a click away to explain...
+
Primary
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Baseball: Biological Baseball

For Students 3rd - 9th
Younger students learn that hitting a baseball requires the use of various brain to body reaction activities and how those compare to the instincts and actions of animals.
+
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: How Does the Nervous System Help Us Respond? Ocr 21 C

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the areas of the brain and the functions of each area. It includes a diagram of the brain with areas labeled, a table of the functions of the areas, and a link to a test.
+
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How the Food You Eat Affects Your Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Which foods cause you to feel tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia Nacamulli takes you into the brain to find out. [4:52]
+
Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Hitting a Baseball Needs the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
We tend to think about sports and games as if they were physical activities that depend on strength and speed, and reading and math problems as if they were mental activities that depend on being brainy and smart. It's true that hitting...
+
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?

For Students 9th - 10th
Sara Garofalo explains how some drugs can alter the communication between cells in the brain.
+
Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Arboviral Encephalitides

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource describes several different kinds of encephalitis in detail.
+
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Central Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers parts of the central nervous system and their functions.
+
Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls1 8: Information Processing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS1-8: information processing.
+
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Science of the Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduce students to how the body looks and works with these texts on biology and genetics. This collection includes 20 Grade-Leveled texts (5-10) on the topic of Science of the Body. [Free account registration required for specific...
+
Website
Other

Brain Line: Brain Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Three roll-over diagrams of the brain highlight its parts. In accompanying display panes, learn about the functions that each highlighted part is responsible for and about problems that can occur if that part of the brain is damaged.
+
Handout
Harvard University

Harvard Medicine: The Whole Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
+
Handout
Harvard University

Harvard Medical: The Whole Brain Atlas: Neuroimaging

For Students 9th - 10th
Hundreds of images of brain structures are here, including normal and diseased brain parts.
+
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: The Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
An animal's response to a stimulus is coordinated by its central nervous system (CNS). Neurons carry electrical impulses, and are connected by synapses. Some drugs and toxins affect how impulses pass from one neuron to the next across a...
+
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Causes Hallucinations?

For Students 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Cox details the science of hallucinations.
+
Website
British Council

British Council: How to Memorise Anything

For Students 3rd - 6th
Do you have a good memory? Watch this video to find out how to improve your memory and then play a short game.
+
Unknown Type
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Structure of the Central Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz pertaining to the passage "Structure of the Central Nervous System."
+
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.43 Peripheral Nervous System

For Students 6th - 9th
Understand the structure and function of the peripheral nervous system in the human body.