Neuroscience For Kids

brain awareness week

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is a nationwide effort organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the Society for Neuroscience to promote the public and personal benefits of brain research. The official week for the next BAW is March 15-21, 2010, but any week is a good time to get involved.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! The 2010 University of Washington Brain Awareness Week Open House will be held on March 11, 2010 (Thursday). If you would like to attend the open house, please register ONLINE or complete and return one of the following forms:

[Registration Form (WORD format)] | [Registration Form (PDF)]

[ONLINE REGISTRATION]

Information about last year's Open House is available.

BAW Activities on the Neuroscience for Kids Web site

• The 2010 Neuroscience for Kids Poetry Writing Contest is NOW OPEN.
• BAW Lesson Plan
• Neuroscience Experiments and Activities
• Using the Internet for Brain Awareness Week
• Worksheets, Games, Coloring Book
• BAW Greeting Card
• BAW Bookmark
• Send a BAW "Electronic Postcard"
• Special Brain Poster Set
• Activity-A-Day
• Special BAW Booklet from the UMIST and the University of Manchester.

Magazine cover stories about the brain (good for BAW displays):

1. "The Rehabilitation of Marc Buoniconti" Sports Illustrated, August 24, 2009
2. "The Mystery of Epilepsy" Newsweek magazine, April 20, 2009
3. "How the Coming Revolution in Stem Cells Could Save Your Life," Time magazine, February 9, 2009
4. "Plugging into the Brain," Scientific American, November, 2008
5. "Growing Up Bipolar," Newsweek magazine, May 26, 2008
6. "Get Smarter," Wired magazine, May, 2008
7. "Inside Animal Minds," National Geographic magazine, March, 2008
8. "Keeping Your Brain Fit," US News and World Report, February 11, 2008
9. "The Science of Romance," Time, January 28, 2008
10. "Remember This," National Geographic magazine, November, 2007
11. "Windows on the Mind," Scientific American, August, 2007
12. "How We Get Addicted," Time, July 16, 2007
13. "The Science of Appetite," Time, June 11, 2007
14. "Confronting Alzheimer's," Newsweek June 18, 2007
15. "The Memory Code," Scientific American, July, 2007
16. "Windows on the Mind," Scientific American, August, 2007
17. "Exercise and the Brain," Newsweek, March 26, 2007
18. "The Evolution Revolution," Newsweek, March 19, 2007.

Scheduled BAW Events Around Seattle, WA

• March 11, 2010: University of Washington BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK OPEN HOUSE
• March 2010: Classroom Visits by UW Neuroscientists
• March 1-31, 2010: Neuroscience Book Displays at Seattle Public Libraries/Local Bookstores

[Pictures from the 2009 Open House]

BAW Events Around the USA/World

• BAW at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (Atlanta, GA)
• BAW at Johns Hopkins University - (Baltimore, MD)
• BAW at Las Positas College (Livermore, CA)
• BAW at Los Angeles City College (Los Angeles, CA)
• BAW at Muskingum College (New Concord, OH)
• BAW at the National Museum of Health and Medicine
• BAW at the Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, OR)
• BAW at the Saskatchewan Neuroscience Network (University of Saskatchewan)
• BAW at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities and Duluth, MN)
• BAW at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
• BAW at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• BAW in Germany
• BAW in Montreal, Canada
• BAW in Regina, SK, Canada
• BAW in Romania
• BAW in Vienna, Austria
• Boston Regional Brain Bee
• Brain Fair at the Neuroscience Center Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Dana Foundation BAW
• European Dana Alliance for the Brain
• Society for Neuroscience BAW
• International Brain Bee
• The Brain Campaign

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