SciTech Days
Workshop
C3
3rd Floor
March 6-9, 2018
Carnegie Science Center
For more info:
412.237.3400, then press 7
Neuroscience, Physics, and Your Brain – You Decide Workshop 2.0
Navigate the spectrum of the mind! How do we learn about the brain? What have we learned? Discover current brain mapping basics. Explore: How have savants and injuries helped us learn about the brain? Think about the future: What kind of images are ok to be public knowledge about your brain? Does that answer differ if the images are used for a trial, your permanent record, or an employer?
Study physics and the brain by learning what the (f)MRI sees.
What kinds of careers relate to this topic? Check out resources to extend the experience.
‘You Decide’ workshops provide the opportunity for students to put into practice what they’ve learned during SciTech Days workshops. Reflecting on the workshop topic, students are asked to think about a particular issue, set priorities, make a choice, and choose an action. They’re given opportunities to process the content both as individuals and as teams. By integrating the experience with content material, the impact and relevance of this experience is magnified.
Science and technology topics include: anatomy, physics, new technologies, neuroscience, careers, and project-based learning
Program Capacity: 15
Program Dates & Times
Middle School
March 6, 2018 – 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon, 1 pm
March 7, 2018 – 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon, 1 pm
High School
March 8, 2018 – 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon, 1 pm
March 9, 2018 – 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon, 1 pm
Classroom Resources
Movies, Books
What an Animated Movie Gets Right About the Brain (includes trailor)
Invisible Gorilla
Spark of Genius? Awakening a Better Brain (video)
World Science Festival Brain on Trial moderated by Alan Alda
Brains on trial deciding punishment video online
What color is Tuesday? (video)
Ted Talks (video)
Ted talk Lessons (video)
Deception of Your Perceptions (video with presentation and discussion)
The Smell of Green Thunder: How Does Synesthesia Differ from Hallucination? (Oliver Sacks interview for the World Science Festival)
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, by Oliver Sacks
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks
The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku
The Man Who Tasted Shapes, by R. E. Cytowic
Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds, by P. L. Duffy
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, by R. E. Cytowick (in depth)
Video clip - try this illusion with kiwi fruit
Do it – competition, volunteer, games, make it, lesson plan,…
Split Brain Experiments Game
Classroom yearly fee $30 for use of a dozen plus interactives: Deep Brain Stimulation, Nanoparticles & Brain Tumors
Pittsburgh Connection
Creation of PITT Brain Institute, comprising five centers of study
Good Sites
Brain Atlas
Atlas of the Human Brain including brain slicer
General Site Synesthesia
Left and right brain today
Hands-on and lesson plans around neuroscience
Why are teens oblivious to the pile of dirty clothing on the bedroom floor?
The Human Connectome Project
What people with "calendar synesthesia" reveal about how our minds deal with time
In the News
Taste the Rainbow
Creation of PITT Brain Institute, comprising five centers of study
Football Hits the Brain Hard
Nano Air Pollutants and the Brain
Best Illusions of the Year Article
Best Illusions of the Year Competition
Teens and their emotional brain
Updated brain map identifies 100 new areas, NY Times
New areas delineated in the human brain (Human Connectome Project), Nature August 2016
Careers
Bioinformatics Scientist
Science Writer
Pharmacist
Health Educator
Medical Social Worker
Psychologist
Statistician
Occupational Health Safety Specialist
Physics Teacher
Precision Instrument Equipment Repairer
Biological Technician
Medical Engineer
Robotics Technician
Database Administrator
Site for General Career Resources
Standards
MS-PS1-2,3,4; MS-PS2-1,2; MS-PS4-3; MS-LS1-1,2,3,4,5,8; MS-LS2-5; MS-LS3-2; MS-ETS1-1
HS-PS1-1,2,3,6; HS-PS2-1,3; HS-PS3-3; HS-PS4-5; HS-LS1-1,2,3,4; HS-LS2-7; HS-LS3-1; HS- ESS3-2,4; HS- ETS1-1,3
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