Brain Power for Kids and Multiple Intelligences

Neuroscience for Kids for Kids. This home page has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system. 

Emotional Intelligence

Sheep Brain Dissection

Classroom activities - Neurobiology

Learn About the Brain An Activity a Day to Learn About the Brain. This resource contains four weeks of activities and projects for learning about the brain. 

Virtual Body - has an EXCELLENT brain section

The Brain is the Boss - site specifically for kids

Lobes of the Brain In this activity the students will fill in the spaces with the correct name of each lobe of the brain.

Pieces of Mind - excellent lesson ideas about the brain and memory, for older grades.

Brain Briefings For upper grades.

Use it or Lose it - memory lesson plan

Increasing Brain Power - yrs 5-8 activity about memory and the brain

Probe the Brain Online excellent site for exploring the brain.

Explore the Brain and Spinal Cord

Illusions

Body, Mind, and Modem - offers an introduction to Aikido principles for calmness and relaxation. Includes exercises and games. Fantastic site to enhance brain learning.

The Brain - Creativity Web

Brain Themes

Intelligence

Brain Articles Collection of articles about the brain.

Creative Writing Projects Creative writing projects to spice up the study of the nervous system. Develop a resume for your brain. Write a travel guide for your brain. Create an advertisement for your brain.

Multiple Intelligences

Great Thinkers and Visionaries

Neuroscience Links

New Horizons

Neurolab Online - includes examples of student work about the brain.

Brain Facts and Figures

Headaches - written for kids

Brain Worksheets and Puzzles

Brain and Mind - articles and online magazine about brain issues - more for teacher information than student.

Intelligence Theory and Testing - looks at the studies conducted by various well known names including Jensen and Gardner.

A Neuroscience Tutorial - An illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience

The Whole Brain Atlas - for adult learners

Neuroscience Education - links

Understanding the Brain and Reading

How People Learn

Multiple Intelligences - an introduction

Multiple Intelligences - teacher activities

Brain Workouts Designed for a lay audience, these brief reports include "Brain Work-Outs," "Gender and the Brain," "Nicotine and the Brain" and many more.

21st Century Learning Initiative

Multiple Intelligences Chatroom

 

Brain Connection: The Brain and Learning - This is an excellent site about the brain and learning! You will find articles, brain building activities (for kids and adults), animations of brain processes, a library, a gallery, an anatomy section and more. Includes Eric Jensen interviews.

Brain Teasers and Challenges outstanding online activities for young and older students. ABC Gulp is excellent for helping young students to learn the alphabet.

The Brain Store - neuroscience kids links

Jensen Learning Corporation - brain based learning

Brainy Postcards

Brain Games Brain Games Multiple activities related to the nervous system. This includes brain teasers, puzzles, games and jokes about the brain and the nervous system. 

Brain Awareness Week Lessons

Memory and How it Works

Colouring Book Pictures of the Nervous System (2-3) Here children can print out different images of the Nervous System for a class book.

Experiments with the Brain Experiments to help explain how the brain works.

Songs Brain Songs (Pre-K-1) Students can read and sing along with songs about the brain at this site. 

Brain worksheets and lessons This resource contains worksheets and lessons on the brain and nervous system that are ready to print out and work on off-line.

The Virtual Body Students can watch movie clips explaining the function of different body parts at these sites.

Chocolate and the Brain

Science Net - Brain Questions and More

Science Net - Search the Database for Brain articles simply worded.

Metaphors for the Brain This activity shows a table containing some of the things that the brain has been compared to and why they are like the brain.

The Brain - a thinkquest entry

Memory includes sheep brain dissection, droodles, memory games and online exhibits

Amazing Brain

Artful Minds

The Brain Explorer

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections - At this site you can "see and download photographs of brains of over 100 different species of mammals (including humans) representing 17 mammalian orders.

Creativity Web Inspired by the writings of Edward de Bono, includes brain theory, multiple intelligences and ideas for inspiring creativity in students.

Affects of Cigarettes on the Brain

Brainy Kids - includes lesson plans and activities about the brain as well as other science ideas.

The Brain Web - information about the brain and illness etc

The Brain Lab - articles and sites related to the brain.

The Brain Reads - article about the brain and reading.

Connecting Brain Processes to School Policies and Practices A monthly column by Robert Sylwester, Ed.D.

Brain Image Gallery

Gardner Gurus

Multiple Intelligences - additional activities

Multiple Intelligences Introduction

Cook Primary School - plans all units of work in MI, Blooms and DeBono's thinking.