BRAINS to Middle School is a project designed to promote and facilitate inquiry-based learning in neuroscience among fifth to eighth grade students and their teachers. The project is composed of three components including:

• BrainU - a series of teacher professional development workshops
• Explain Your Brain - assembly, exhibit hall, and class activity programs for schools
• Brain Trunk - neuroscience resource and materials trunk for classroom use

This website is designed to provide resources for anyone curious about and/or interested in teaching neuroscience.

Powerpoint presentation on the BrainU program presented by Dr. Janet Dubinsky to the CAREI Assembly on 4/30/07

Here's a link to the 2006 paper describing the BrainU program and it's impacts. The article is titled, "Neuroscience in Middle Schools: A Professional Development and Resource Program That Models Inquiry-based Strategies and Engages Teachers in Classroom Implementation" CBE Life Sci Educ 5(2): 144-157 2006.

One of BrainU staff and a collaborating BrainU teacher published an article in the National Science Teachers Association's high school journal on teens and their brains. This article is titled, "From Frustrating Forgetfulness to Fabulous Forethought" by Megan Hall and Colleen Hellenbrand, The Science Teacher 74(1): 24-27, 2007.