Guide your students' exploration of their brains.
Use these Learning Resources to guide your students' exploration of their brains. Print out Activities as independent handouts or the Experiments as group lessons.
- Activities - encourage coloring, cutting, and folding, and demonstrate brain anatomy.
- Experiments - are active learning tools that allow students to find out more about their own brains and bodies.
Activities
Color in the parts of the eye and learn more about vision!
Find your way though this maze and learn how visual signals get into the brain
Color in the parts of the middle ear to learn how we hear sounds and language!
Squiggly and wrinkled on the outside, but filled with intricate structures on the inside. Color in the structures and fold up this model to see the surface of the brain!
Want to learn more about how animals think? Match these feathered and furry friends with their brains to see how all brains are specialized.
Experiments
The Invisible Spot (577k PDF)
Did you know that there is a spot that you can't see no matter how hard you look? Find your blind spot in this simple experiment! No materials required.
Where Was That? (607k PDF)
Different parts of your body have different sensitivities to touch. Measure how sensitive your skin is with this fun experiment! Colored markers required.
Left Brain, Right Brain (645k PDF)
Are you right brained or left brained? You can't find out by testing your personality, but these simple observations of your habits will reveal all! No materials required.
Ups and Downs (821k PDF)
Your body temperature goes through predictable cycles throughout the course of a day. Chart your "circadian rhythm" with this fun experiment! Oral thermometer required.
Grocery Store Game (605k PDF)
How good of a shopper are you? Test your memory span and practice mnemonic strategies with this naming game. No materials required.