| HUMAN
BRAIN AND SENSES COURSE MATRIX |
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FOSS
CD-ROM |
FOSS
READINGS |
EXTENSIONS |
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1. |
Learning
and Memory (4 sessions) |
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Teacher
Guide
• Crime Scene
Games Room
• Memory Game |
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Learning and Memory
• Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
• Excerpt from The Story of My Life |
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Write in a different way.
• Research mirror writing.
• Go on a trust walk.
• Study more about Helen Keller.
• Learn braille.
• Read for the blind.
• Learn to sign. |
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2. |
Eyes:
Inside and Out (3 sessions) |
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Vision:
How the Eye Works
• Pupil Response
Vision: How the Eye Looks
• Human Eye, Fish Eye, Cow Eye
• Position of the Eye
• Light into the Eye
Teacher Guide
• Cow-Eye Dissection |
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The Mammalian Eye |
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Compare eyes of different animals.
• Dissect fish eyes. |
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3. |
Lenses
(3–4 sessions) |
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Optics
Bench
• Bending of Light in Materials
• Lenses
• A Visit to the Optometrist |
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Lenses and Light
• Corrective Lenses |
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Write about the role of light in vision.
• Dissect a disposable camera.
• Have a presentation on photography.
• Make a pinhole camera.
• View the FOSS CD-ROM. |
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4. |
Retina
(3–4 sessions) |
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Vision:
What Can Go Wrong
Vision: How the Eye Works
• Field of View
• Receptor and Receptor Density
Vision: How the Eye Looks
• Human Eye
• Light into the Eye |
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The Retina
• Field of Vision
• The Eyes Have It |
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Investigate field of vision.
• Investigate high/low peripheral vision.
• Visit an eye doctor.
• Investigate problems of the retina.
• Investigate binocular vision.
• View the FOSS CD-ROM. |
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5. |
Into
the Brain (5–6 sessions) |
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MRI Lab
EEG Lab
Brain
• Pull-Apart Brain |
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Vision and the Brain
• Structures of the Human Brain
• History of Brain Research
• Brain-Imaging Techniques |
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Tour an MRI facility.
• Develop brain questions.
• Assign mapping homework. |
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