Mouse Party
Mouse Party While this sounds like a cute little activity, it actually shows the results of different drugs on the brains of lab mice.
Read MoreCrossing the Divide: How Neurons Talk to Each Other
Crossing the Divide: How Neurons Talk to Each Other One of my favorite sites does an excellent job with this topic.
Read MoreThe New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain
The New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain This page has several interactives and information on addiction. Great for Webquests.
Read MoreHHMI Virtual Neurophysiology Lab
HHMI Virtual Neurophysiology Lab Studying the nervous system and neurons? Take a look at this lab that lets you record electrical activities of individual neurons and shows you how to identify the different neuron types. How cool is that?
Read MoreBody Systems
Body Systems An overview of 6 different systems: The Skeletal system The Digestive System The Muscle System The Nervous System The Cardiovascular System (Circulatory System) The Urinary System (The Excretory System) Another site that while good for middle school with teacher guidance may be better suited to high school.
Read MoreBrain Drain
Brain Drain Review what part of the brain controls each function. Easy and quick.
Read MoreThe Brain
The Brain This is part of a series of sites by the Hospital for Sick Children. It provides insight into child physiology. I’ve enjoyed looking around on the site and decided to list each section separately. There is some excellent information available here, written at an easy-to-understand level. This one is on the brain and [...]
Read MoreCerebral Commando
This one helps to illustrate the job of synapses. You control the number of receptors as well as being able to recycle dopamine. I had to play with it a bit to get the hang of it. Cerebral Commando
Read MoreMake a Mad, Mad, Mad Neuron
This one’s sort of interesting….in a weird kind of way. Join a mad scientist in a lab to build a neuron. It’s part of the Learn.Genetics website that helps to understand addiction. You actually put together a neuron to see the structure. Make a Mad, Mad, Mad Neuron
Read MoreHuman Body and Mind – Interactive Body
In sorting through sites, I find good stuff, not so good stuff, and GREAT STUFF! This is a great page that has links for all sorts of interactives with the human body. There’s anatomy as well as some insight into how the brain works. Very interesting. Most of them I’ve worked through or I wouldn’t [...]
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