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This activity demonstrates the importance of wearing a helmet to protect the brain. An egg is used to symbolize a head with the shell as the skull and the inside of the egg as the brain.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this neuroscience activity (5th activity on the page), learners explore their sense of touch without using their senses of vision and hearing.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners play a trick on their own brain to see if the brain can learn to ignore distracting input. Colors and words are used to play the visual trick, known as a Stroop Test.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity about the baroreceptor reflex (BR) arc (page 123 of the PDF), learners discover the importance of maintaining adequate arterial blood pressure through a role playing exercise.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this online brain stumper, the bottom half of a series of letters is covered. You may think you know what it says, but remove the black bar to see if you're right.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners conduct the "Stroop Effect" test and explore what happens when they try to complete two simple tasks at the same time.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners build an animation tool to make mini movies. When you spin a phenakistascope, the pictures move so quickly that your eyes and brain can't separate the images.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners estimate risks associated with different events and compare their estimates to the real possibilities.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity (page 89 of the PDF), learners compare and contrast pitch and roll motions by using a Magic Carpet maze similar to one that was used for Neurolab investigations about microgravity.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity about the brain and sleep (on page 138 of the PDF), learners measure their resting breathing rates. Learners will discover that breathing frequencies vary amongst individuals.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity (page 95 of the PDF), learners create Escher Staircase models similar to those that were used by Neurolab's Spatial Orientation Team to investigate the processing of information about

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Which one of your eyes are dominant? Do they act independently or are they equally "in control?" This activity explores how your eyes work (or don't work) together.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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This perception trick focuses on conflicting information to the brain...instead of trying to see two images, you're trying to get a bright spot by overlapping the image you see through two tubes.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 Under 5 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover that it is difficult to trace a curve by using its reflection in a mirror. Use this activity to discuss how the brain works.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity about how the body regulates blood pressure (page 117 of the PDF), learners make and compare measurements of heart rate and blood pressure from three body positions: sitting, standing

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (15th activity on the page) about the sense of touch, learners use glue and cardboard to construct a maze they use with their eyes closed.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners conduct a simple test to find their blind spot.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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In this activity (8th activity on the page) about the sense of touch, learners make their own set of Braille letters. Learners use glue to make raised dots on a Braille Alphabet Sheet.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this online game, learners practice memory recall. They are shown a collage of pictures for two minutes, then have to write down everything they remember and check how they did.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this simple exploratory activity (1st activity on the page), blindfolded learners try to identify mystery items by smell.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes