Brain Awareness 1999

Local resources for classroom visits.

Take copies of the flyer advertising the Neuroscience Open House if your visit is prior to April 3. Hand copies out to the kids to take home.  The flyers are on the shelf of the bookcase in Room 233 Huestis. Or, write marvgl@uoneuro.uoregon.edu requesting the number of flyers you need, and the the flyers will mysteriously appear in your mailbox.

Preserved brains for demonstration and dissection are available from Karen Larison (larisonk@uoneuro), Room 20 Huestis. These include sheep brains, and plastic embedded brains of serveral species.

A beautiful painted plastic model of a human brain is available from Vonda Evans (vevans@oregon, 6-4941) in room 38, Straub Hall. Vonda is making the model available for our demonstrations.

You can check out microscopes for use in classroom demonstrations.  To check out a microscope, see Judy in the Biology Prep Room on the first floor of Huestis Hall.

Health education calendars have been prepared for elementary school classrooms by Monte Matthews. If you are going to an elementary classroom, pick up a health ed calendar in room 233 Huestis. Give the calendar to your classroom teacher for use as he/she sees fit.

Materials of various kinds have been placed on the bookcase shelf in room 233 Huestis. Look for the shelf labeled  Brain Awareness.  These materials include:

• lesson plans from the Society for Neuroscience
• brain awareness buttons
• transparencies for use with overhead projectors
• calibrated aluminum strip for measuring reaction time
• video showing various neuro/psychological phenomena including a good demo by Mike Gazzaniga of a human split brain patient.
• Medical dividers for two point threshold determination
• Funny brain hats or "thinking caps".
• "Plug in to Neuroscience" t-shirt
• Poem about the brain, consciousness and science by Richard Feynmann
• Check this list later for new additions.

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