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 BAW is March 10-16, 2008, but any week is a good time to get involved.

The 2008 University of Washington Brain Awareness Week OPEN HOUSE was held on Monday, March 3, 2008.

BAW Activities on the Neuroscience for Kids Web site

• The 2008 Neuroscience for Kids Writing Contest is NOW CLOSED and judging is finished.
• 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. "Remember This," National Geographic magazine, November, 2007
2. "Windows on the Mind," Scientific American, August, 2007
3. "How We Get Addicted," Time, July 16, 2007
4. "The Science of Appetite," Time, June 11, 2007
5. "Confronting Alzheimer's," Newsweek June 18, 2007
6. "The Memory Code," Scientific American, July, 2007
7. "Windows on the Mind," Scientific American, August, 2007
8. "Exercise and the Brain," Newsweek, March 26, 2007
9. "The Evolution Revolution," Newsweek, March 19, 2007.
10. "The Brain. A User's Guide," Time, January 29, 2007
11. "The New Face of Alzheimer's," U.S. News and World Report, December 11, 2006.
12. "Autism," Scientific American, November, 2006.
13. "The New Face of Alzheimer's," U.S. News and World Report, December 11, 2006.
14. "Autism," Scientific American, November, 2006.
15. "Inside the Austistic Mind," Time, May 15, 2006.
16. "The Mystery of Dreams," US News and World Report, May 15, 2006.
17. "Your Baby's Brain," Newsweek, August 15, 2005.

Scheduled BAW Events Around Seattle, WA

• March 3, 2008: University of Washington BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK OPEN HOUSE

• March 2008: Classroom Visits by UW Neuroscientists
• March 1-31, 2008: Neuroscience Book Displays at Seattle Public Libraries/Local Bookstores

[Pictures from the 2008 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 Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights, KY)
• 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 the University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston, TX)
• BAW at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• BAW in Australia
• BAW in Germany
• BAW in Manchester, England
• 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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