Teacher Resources

Events

• Brain Awareness Season (February-March, 2010) -- Several weeks of events, including lectures by distinguished neuroscientists, panels and programs on neurological health and disease, and exhibits for teachers, students and family.
  
  

Curriculum Supplements

Grades 2-5:

• People and Animals Interactive Health and Science Calendar(A perpetual calendar with information about health, medical discoveries and good hygiene presented in colorful comics)
• Lucky Puppy (A coloring workbook on animal and human health)
  

Grades 6-8:

• Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on Daphnia
  A hands-on student laboratory activity in which students conduct their own investigation of effects on daphnia after applications of alcohol and tobacco solutions.
  

• Biomedical Science
  Participants in the TIES (Teacher Institute for the Experience of Science) Program at OHSU/ONPRC have designed and tested these lessons to bring students an insight into current biomedical research – in terms of content, context and method.
  

• Saving Lives with Biomedical Research
  This comic/activity book is designed to help students understand the purpose of and essential need for animals in biomedical research.
  
• Essay contest
  

Grades 9-12:

• Ethics in the Science Classroom(Curriculum materials)
• Neuroscience Resources

National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Educationoffers free high school curricula on the following topics (and others):

• Cell Biology and Cancer
• Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
• Genetics Resources
• Human Genetic Variation
• The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology through the Study of Addiction
• Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Biological Rhythms
• Stem Cell Information

Web Sites

View a list of web sites design for students doing research projects.