resourceful, authoritative neuroscience website for K-12 teaching

[Skip Zilla]

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN), a nonprofit organization of more than 38,000 researchers and professionals, provides this website, Neuroscience Education Resources Virtual Encycloportal (NERVE), to advance neuroscience teaching and other initiatives among K-12 educators. Many neuroscientists have volunteered their expertise and guidance in the development of the information and tools for teaching accessible through this new gateway website, which is regularly updated.

[Ian Carmichael]

Looks very rich - thanks Skip, I'm starting to much my way through!

[Kyle Neal]

Thank you Skip! Excellent find! I love this stuff. I've just begun looking through the site using the K-2 audience filter. The modules look very well done and the activities well planned and engaging. I have a 1st grade daughter and a 4th grade son enjoy that would really these too. I need familiarity with sites like this that offer so much material and method for the classroom.

[Skip Zilla]

Kyle, I'm continually amazed by the wonderful media resources available to learners of all ages on the Web. The most important virtue of accessibility is that anyone who's curious can open up resources that may be way beyond their limited preparedness for the fullest of engagements yet compel their wonder and an excitement at the prospect of growing out of themselves in which they've been latently confined. We humans, no matter the length of our years or experience, are inherently curiosity-seekers and love to unleash a mindfulness always in waiting for novel engagement.

[Ian Carmichael]

National Academies Press have a current (2008) publication Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies- readable (for free)here
Not directly keyed into education, the actual website blurb carries these comments
"As these fields continue to grow, it will be imperative that the intelligence community be able to identify scientific advances relevant to national security when they occur. To do so will require adequate funding, intelligence analysts with advanced training in science and technology, and increased collaboration with the scientific community, particularly academia.

A key tool for the intelligence community, this book will also be a useful resource for the health industry, the military, and others with a vested interest in technologies such as brain imaging and cognitive or physical enhancers."

But nevertheless, interesting, with an appendix on neuroethics...

[Skip Zilla]

Thanks, Ian, for pointing to this valuable press arm of four U.S. scientific research academies. I've been led to one of their always-free-for-online-reading and often-free-for-pdf-download publications a number of times when at the wheel, mind-venturing in cyberspace. I'll take a look at the neuroscience survey you've hyperlinked.