BrainWaves Synchronous Lessons
Unit 1: Neuroscience Overview
Neuroscience Glossary (Click Here)
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Unit 2: Student Research (Click Here)
Part of this Online Curriculum has been developed with the collaboration of BrainWaves teachers and mentors Andrew Ferreira, Mimi Gupta and Valerie Nunez.
External Resources
Introduction to Brainwaves and EEG
Virtual EEG Lab: in this website you can find a java-based app that allows you to design, virtually run and analyze results of a visual cognition EEG experiment, and see what the actual EEG data looks like (from an EEG data base). It also features a good video explaining how to run the virtual experiment and how to interpret the data, and a virtual EEG assignment.
PsyToolkit: this website provides lessons about cognitive neuroscience experiments, and allows to design and run experiments in a web-based environment.
Ethical considerations when designing a study with human subjects – JoVE
The brain from top to bottom: lessons covering many areas in neuroscience, from beginner to advanced level (note the tabs in the top-right corner).
Neuroscience Lesson Plans on Memory and Senses
Homunculus mapper: this website provides tools to map the somatosensory sensitivity of your brain in different parts of the body, and allows you to visualize a sensory homunculus of your own body.
Educational and Physical Activities for Stay at Home students – Backyard Brains
BrainFacts.org: this website hosts a great variety of short articles and short videos on different topics in neuroscience, with a section for educators.
BrainFacts.org also hosts a brain awareness video contest.
Resources for teachers
Harvard University courses – Fundamentals of Neuroscience (now free)
- Part 1: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron
- Part 2: Neurons and Networks
- Part 3: The Brain – Sensation and perception, movement control, and brain systems