Mar 18 2008
Put your thinking caps on for Brain Awareness Week and Month
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Did you know that March is Brain and Brain Injury Awareness month? Brain Awareness Week, organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, was last week but events are going on worldwide all month to advance public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research.
Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives is part of The Dana Foundation, a great resource for parents and teaches on brain science. It features Brainy Kids Online, a website for children, teens, parents and teachers with links to games, labs, education resources, and lesson plans.
As part of Brain Awareness Week, the Dana Foundation website also has links to puzzles and educational resources. One of the documents I found extremely helpful was Brain Books for Budding Scientists—and All Children with its list of brain books
As author Carolyn Phelan writes:
Any library can supply you with children’s books about the brain, but a dull, inaccurate, or outdated book can be worse than none at all. A well-written and illustrated children’s book, though, can help spark the imagination of the next generation of scientists, doctors, and citizens. Children’s books can help both to take the mystery out of science and to instill curiosity about the natural world. They can also remind adults how to simplify and explain complicated subjects for young, inquisitive minds.
Here’s Phelan’s extremely comprehensive list of brain books for kids ages 4 to 16:
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn by Melvin Berger and illustrated by Paul Meisel – ages 4-8
- The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen – ages 5-8
- Look inside Your Brain
by Heather Alexander – ages 5-8
- Why Do I Laugh or Cry?: And Other Questions About the Nervous System
by Sharon Cromwell – ages 7-9
- The Brain
by Suzanne LeVert – ages 8-10
- Brain, Nerves, and Senses
by Steve Parker and illustrated by Ian Thompson – ages 8-11
The Brain: Our Nervous Systemby Seymour Simon – ages 8-12
- Big Book of the Brain
by John Farndon and illustrated by Peter Bedrick – ages 8-12
- Big Head: A Book About Your Brain and Your Head
by Peter Rowan and illustrated by John Temperton – ages 9-13
- Hmm?: The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read about Memory (Mysterious You)
by Diane Swanson and illustrated by Rose Cowles – ages 10-14
- The Brain and Spinal Cord: Learning How We Think, Feel, and Move (3-D Library of the Human Body)
by Chris Hayhurst – ages 12-15
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
- 101 Questions Your Brain Has Asked About Itself But Couldn’t Answer… Until Now: But Couldn’t Answer … Until Now (101 Questions)
by Faith Hickman Brynie and illustrated by Sharon Lane Holme – ages 12-16
Download the 15-page Brain Books for Budding Scientists—and All Children report (PDF) to learn more about the books.
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Put your thinking caps on for Brain Awareness Week and Month…
Did you know that March is Brain and Brain Injury Awareness month? Brain Awareness Week, organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, was last week. But here’s a comprehensive book list on brain books for kids and links to brain science websi…
Put your thinking caps on for Brain Awareness Week and Month |…
Did you know that March is Brain and Brain Injury Awareness month? Brain Awareness Week, organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, was last week. But here’s a comprehensive book list on brain books for kids and links to brain science websi…
Put your thinking caps on for Brain Awareness Week and Month |…
Did you know that March is Brain and Brain Injury Awareness month? Brain Awareness Week, organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, was last week. Even so there are events going on all over the world all month. The post includes a comprehens…
Put your thinking caps on for Brain Awareness Week and Month |…
Did you know that March is Brain and Brain Injury Awareness month? Brain Awareness Week, organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, was last week. But here’s a comprehensive book list on brain books for kids and links to brain science websi…
I watched a really good documentary on BBC last night about how the brain records memories, and how being able to remember is directly related being able to imagine the future, this doesnt just mean daydreaming about flying cars and the like, it means about your future, career, family etc.
They went on to mention that children that developed good memory skills early on in their life were more likely to be able to imagine their own possibilities and had a better sense of ‘self’. It was really quite fascinating