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"Welcome to Backyard Brains The brain is complex, but extremely fascinating. We need more people interested in studying the brain because 20% of the world will have a neurological disorder... and there are no cures! To study the brain, you typically have to be a graduate student at a major university. Not any more! Backyard Brains enables everyone to be a neuroscientist! We provide affordable neuroscience experiment kits for students of all ages to learn (hands-on) about electrophysiology. Now everyone from schoolchildren to grad students and every grade in between can experiment with similar tools used by real neuroscientists worldwide! By following a few simple steps, everyone can experience first-hand how the brain communicates with our senses, memories, hopes, and desires."

From neurons to brain wiring, Dr. David Walsh gives an easy-to-understand tour of children's and teens' brain development and the impact of experience on the "wiring' of their brains. Children are shaped by the stories they see and hear from parents, rela

Research shows that physical "brain breaks" can help students activate, energize, and stimulate their brains. GoNoodle helps students "get the wiggles out" with brain breaks. Create a free login, set up your class, and choose from a variety of exercise, movement, and dance videos.

3-D Brain Anatomy and sample of cool Mind Illusions

The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to ou

The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) leads the nation in observing Brain Injury Awareness Month by conducting an awareness campaign in March each year. The theme for the 2015 to 2017 campaign is: Not Alone.

Links to 20 music videos for brain breaks

Brains On! is a podcast featuring inquiry-based science explorations. Each episode poses an authentic question and an entertaining examination of the answer. Sometimes that means talking to a nutritionist or a reptile expert. Other times that means putting on a play about sound waves or singing songs about sleep. It's a science lesson for your ears!

Brain and Central Nervous System informatin for Kids

Washington Post Article - Specific parts of the brain are activated when children try to comprehend sentences. Scans allow researchers to measure that process.

Brain computer interface, or BCI, could day help restore movement to paralyzed people and enable amputees to move bionic limbs.

This is unpolished but great slide show that applies John Medina's Brain Rules into the classroom.

Wonderful guide and resources for working with students with traumatic brain injury

What if we didn't need brain breaks because movement was built in to the lessons and activities? What if we designed the learning experiences with movement in mind?

"Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you," - losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius's reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen - his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body."

This free downloadable PDF has lots of great ideas for brain breaks to help activate, energize, and stimulate your students and help keep them engaged.

Brains On! is a podcast featuring inquiry-based science explorations. Each episode poses an authentic question and an entertaining examination of the answer. Sometimes that means talking to a nutritionist or a reptile expert. Other times that means putting on a play about sound waves or singing songs about sleep. It's a science lesson for your ears!

Interactive guide to how the brain works