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 10-16, 2014, but any week is a good time to get involved.

The 2014 UW BAW Open House was held on March 4, 2014!

Read about the 2014 BAW Open House!

BAW Activities on the Neuroscience for Kids Web site

• 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. "A Thing or Two About Twins," National Geographic, January, 2012
2. "The Neuroscience of Identity," Scientific American, March, 2012
3. "Teenage Brain," National Geographic, October, 2011
4. "The Unlocked Mind," Discover magazine, March, 2011
5. "The Brain's Dark Energy Brain," Scientific American, March, 2010
6. "Our Mind-Boggling Brain," American Scholar magazine, Winter 2010
7. "Merging Man and Machine," National Geographic, January, 2010

Scheduled BAW Events Around Seattle, WA

• March, 2014: University of Washington BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK OPEN HOUSE
• March 2014: Classroom Visits by UW Neuroscientists
• March 1-31, 2014: Neuroscience Book Displays at Seattle Public Libraries/Local Bookstores

BAW Events Around the USA/World

• NEURO4KIDS.COM
• Neurobiology and Behavior Community Outreach
• BAW at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (Atlanta, GA)
• BAW at Los Angeles City College (Los Angeles, CA)
• BAW at Muskingum College (New Concord, OH)
• BAW at the Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, OR)
• BAW at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities and Duluth, MN)
• BAW at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• BAW in Vienna, Austria
• 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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