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Interactive
Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive site for kids and teens. A holistic approach to learning about your body, including topics such as feelings, drugs, injuries, and other health issues. Available in Spanish.
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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.
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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.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan accompanies a reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth and lets learners explore Macbeth's "response to fear" through studying metaphor, imagery, and dramatic cues and by performing a scene.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Inside Your Computer

For Students 9th - 10th
How does a computer work? The critical components of a computer are the peripherals (including the mouse), the input/output subsystem (which controls what and how much information comes in and out), and the central processing unit (the...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?

For Students 9th - 10th
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Pattern Behind Self Deception

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things- from alien abductions to dowsing rods- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are and how they get us into...
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Thanks for the Memories

For Students 9th - 10th
Everyone wants a good memory but we don't often ask ourselves what memory is for. Let's begin our exploration of why memory is important and how it works with a little memory test: Do you remember what you learned in class last...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Proprioception

For Students 9th - 10th
The human body has proprioceptors that send signals to the brain so that we are aware of our body's position and movements. Try these simple experiments to learn about proprioception and about other visual and tactile clues that assist...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Nerve Racking

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson describes the function and components of the human nervous system. It helps young scholars understand the purpose of our brain, spinal cord, nerves and the five senses. How the nervous system is affected during spaceflight is...
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Article
Other

Partnership for a Drug Free America: Pcp

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America is organized in question/answer format, this website provides a good introduction for students wanting to know about PCP and its hazardous effects on the human body and brain.
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Handout
NeurOreille

Neur Oreille: Journey Into the World of Hearing: How Do I Hear?

For Students 9th - 10th
See how the human ear senses a sound, and how that stimulus is transmitted to the brain for interpretation and response.
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Article
Other

Simply Psychology: Information Processing

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what is meant by information processing in the brain and the influence of computers on the thinking of cognitive psychologists. Describes the role of attentional capacity in humans' ability to process information and how models...
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Article
Seeker

Seeker: Creating False Memories in Mice

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on a study in which scientists implanted false memories in the minds of rats. Includes a video.
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Handout
University of Washington

University of Washington: Central Visual Pathways

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the world of central visual pathways. The visual pathway leads from the eye to the primary visual cortex. There is a detailed visual description of this process. Check it out.
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Activity
University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Reflexes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Site provides interactive activities to use in the classroom to test one's reflexes. Also includes more reaction time experiments as well as links to more fun activities.
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Handout
US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Electromagnetic Fields

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to a variety of government-sponsored overviews and articles on electromagnetic fields and their associated health risks.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Double Vision

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how 3-D televisions work. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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