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Many of the games listed below have separate pages...just click on the small picture of the game to open up a new page to play.
Grades K-12
The Stroop Effect: How do words influence what we see (or say we see)?
Grades K-12
Scramble these puzzles and see if you can put them back together...all ON-LINE!
Grades 5-12
Welcome to NEURO-JEOPARDY!
Neuro-Jeopardy is a game to test your knowledge about the nervous system. The game is contained in a Powerpoint file. Therefore, your computer must have the ability to read ppt files. A Spanish version of the game is also available.
Grades K-12
Your job here is to read pictures to make a single word or phrase. Each word or phrase has something to do with the nervous system. For example:
This one is read as: brain.
Here are some more Brain Hieroglyphics
Grades K-6
An on-line comic book describing Sam's incredible journey into his own brain.
Grades K-12
Spell your name with "brainy" letters using the Brain Alphabet.
Grades K-12
How fast are you? Test your response time using these reaction time experiments.
Experiment 1 - Start/Stop test
Experiment 2 - Stoplight test
Experiment 3 - Hit-the-dot test
Experiment 4 - Color test
Experiment 5 - Check box test
Grades K-12
Now there are THREE ways to color:
Color ON-LINE
Grades K-6
Roll the die, move your Brain Marker and follow the directions on the space. If you are the first to collect 20 neurons, you are the winner!
Materials:
Grades K-6
If you have played the game called "Shoots and Ladders," then you know how to play "Brains and Neurons."
How to play:
Materials:
Grades K-6
"Brain It!" is a card game similar to "Go Fish." How to play:
Materials:
You can also play Brain It! with this set of 52 Neuroscience Playing Cards
.Grades K-12
Think you have a good memory? Then take this little Short Term Memory Test
Grades 3-12
How easy is it to recognize faces when they are upside down? Find out with this face recognition game.
Grades 3-12
Find the hidden words.
Printable Worksheets |
Grades 6-12
Pass the box around and read a fact. These facts just might make you say, "Hmmmmmm".
Search the web for answers to questions about the brain and nervous system -- win the GOLDEN NEURON AWARD!!
Grades K-6
Find the unipolar cell in this "Sea of Multipolar Neurons" using this puzzle.
Grades 3-8
Play the classic "3 in a row" game with neuroscience words.
Grades K-6
Flip a coin and move from brain to brain in this board game.
Grades K-8
It may not be the game of "Monopoly" or "Candyland", but this brain board game may be a fun way to learn the names of parts of the brain and parts of a neuron.
Grades 3-8
Race to send your signal faster than your opponents! This game was created by Seth Eggleston, Veronica Hoelscher, and Malayka Mottarella at Willamette University.
Get instructions and game board.
Grades 5-9
Guess what the pictures in the 3 rows, 3 columns and 2 diagonals have in common in this puzzle.
Grades K-6
Test your memory using this classic card game. Cut out the pieces and play CONCENTRATION
Grades K-12
Test your memory with this on-line concentration game by locating the matching brains of different animals. The game requires that your browser is "JAVA-enabled."
Test your memory with this on-line concentration game by locating the pictures of different sense organs (ear, eye, nose, skin, tongue). The game requires that your browser is "JAVA-enabled."
Grades 3-12
See how good your memory is...I will present you with a set of 20 pictures for 30 seconds. The pictures will disappear automatically after 30 seconds. Then write down the names of all the objects you can remember.
For ways to improve your memory, look at the Memory Page
Grades K-3
This puzzle challenges you to find the 2 neurons that look exactly the same.
Grades K-6
Can you make sense of this puzzle? Draw lines to match pictures and words.
For Grades K-3
Help these Lost Neurons find their connections.
Grades 7-12
To play: Questions are prepared either by the students or the teacher. The teacher then asks a question to the class as a whole or to teams of players. Each correct answer is scored as 1 point. Player or team with the most points is the winner.
Here is a list of potential categories and questions to get you started:
Vision
Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain
Brain Disorders
For grades 7-12
To play: Structures, terms or words related to the nervous system that can be grouped together by a "common thread" are created by students or the teacher. The goal of the game is to determine what that common thread is. For example, what do olfactory, optic, trigeminal, hypoglossal, oculomotor, vagus and glossopharyngeal all have in common? (Answer: They are all CRANIAL NERVES). Each word of the list is read slowly, one by one. If a player or team thinks they know the answer, they can call it out. The player or team with the first correct answer, gets one point. Player or team with the most points wins.
Below you will find a list of "lists" to get you started without the answers and here is the list with the answers:
What do these things have in common?
.....and the list can go on and on.
Grades 9-12
Best played with the 12 cranial nerves, "Name That Nerve!" is a variation of the game show "Name That Tune". Gather a list of clues about a particular nerve. Arrange the clues from hardest to easiest. Teams try to "bargain" with each other for the number of clues that they will get. For example, one team (or individual) will say, "I can guess that nerve in 5 clues". If the other team or individual thinks they can guess the nerve in less clues they say "I can guess that nerve in 4 clues". It goes on, until one team does not want to venture a guess with so few clues. Give the number of clues bargained for to the team that will guess. Give the hardest clues first. If they guess correctly, then they get 100 points. If they guess incorrectly the other team gets the points (or you can add a clue for them to make a guess). The biggest challenge is making the questions...Here is one to get you started:
Clues: a special sensory afferent nerve, has a chiasm, connected to the retina, the second cranial nerve, used in vision. (Answer: Optic Nerve)
Grades 3-12
Unscramble the following letters to get a word about the nervous system:
Here are the answers.
If you like these "scrambled word" puzzles, there are more on the worksheet page.
Grades K-6
Use the code to find out about cells in the brain. Here is a harder code to break. Use this code to read this brain quote.
Grades K-3
Follow the lines to find out about how messages travel in the nervous system.
Grades K-12
How many words can you make using the letters from the word "BRAIN"? To get you started, how about the word "rain"?
I found these 15 words. Can you make more?
Grades 3-12
Learn how to say "Brain" in different languages.
Ok, ok...so they are not too funny, but try them anyway.
Don't forget the page on The Senses for more activities.
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