What is the BRAIN to Middle Schools project? It's:

• a unique neuroscience program for Minnesota students and teachers that is funded by the National Institute of Health
• a collaboration of the University of Minnesota's Department of Neuroscience and the Science Museum of Minnesota
• an innovative program designed to encourage and support fifth through eighth grade students learning about their own brains and how they work.
  
  

What do we do in the BRAIN to Middle Schools project? We:

• provide teachers with three years of neuroscience training, materials and staff support to bring brain science to their students
• work with teachers enrolled in BrainU 101, a two-week-long neuroscience institute at the University of Minnesota
  • participating teachers receive a school visit the following year from the Department of Neuroscience and Science Museum staff, who present "Explain Your Brain", an exciting school assembly program and investigative small group sessions to their students
• work with teachers in their second (Brain U 202) and third year (Brain U 303) of enrollment
  • teachers participate in shorter summer sessions. They also receive additional materials and school year classroom support.
• the program uses inquiry as a means to explore brain function and how the brain works.

Contact Us
For more information about BRAIN to Middle Schools and how to participate, please contact:

Janet Dubinsky
Department of Neuroscience
6-145 Jackson Hall
321 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
dubin001@umn.edu