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Use electric fish as a way to help students understand genetics and the development of new characteristics in different species. .
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Body in Balance Vocabulary Worksheet
Using this worksheet, test your students’ comprehension of the body’s response to environmental changes from Chapter 10 of The Brain Facts Book.
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Synpatic Tag
Take the traditional game of tag and turn it into a game of neuroscience tag!
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Connect the Neurons!
Get your students out of their seats and have them act out how neurons transmit messages.
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Check out these optical illusions and learn why your brain gets tricked!
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Arts and crafts and brains…oh my!
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Sleep Deprivation Game
Try to gain as many hours of sleep as you can as you navigate this board game with lots of distractions along the way.
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The Brain Game
Roll the dice and read your fate! Will you be the winner with the most neurons?
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How to do a Science Fair Project
Use this guide to help your students deign a science fair project about the brain.
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Can we tell the difference between a lying brain and a truth-telling brain?
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Teens and Decision Making
In this lesson Scholastics passes along the knowledge that understanding how your brain works can help explain why you behave like you do.
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What Were They Thinking? Exploring Teenage Brain Development
Can your teens tell the difference between their brain and an adult brain?
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