Brain Awareness Week

is an international effort organised by leading neuroscience organisations around the world to promote public awareness about brain and mind disorders and the benefits of brain research.

http://www.brainaustralia.org.au/

Resources for Tasmanian DOE people:

Teacher resources: http://ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/Searches/brain.aspx

Student resources: http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/SearchPages/brain.aspx

Resources about the human brain 

    Brain food   
 
A collection of bookmarks to sites with information about foods which nourish the brain. Prepared for Brain Awareness Week.  more…
http://delicious.com/lorenefurmage/brainfood 
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   Brain Connection  
 
This site is a store of information about the brain, child development and learning. Learning resources include printable activities and experiments. Games and illusions are also provided. The educati…  more…
http://www.brainconnection.com/ 
Birth – 4 Years, Early Childhood, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   DANA BrainWeb & Brain Information: Information on Brain Disorders and Brain Diseases   
 
Addiction, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke, depression, mental illness, schizophrenia, head/brain injury, aging, learning, memory, pain, sleep are all covered in this set of web links…  more…
http://www.dana.org/brainweb/ 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher 
  
   BrainyKids  
 
This site is a starting point for web links for experiments, dissecting sheep’s brain and cow’s eye and a whole frog, themed brain games, plus other brain related information for students, children, p…  more…
http://www.dana.org/kids/ 
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher  
   
     Human Brain  
 
How to nourish, protect and renew your brain.  more…
http://www.fi.edu/brain/index.htm 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College 
  
   Whole Brain Atlas  
 
View the human brain in three different directions. Learn to navigate through a normal brain and then study brains affected by Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease (stroke); tumor; multiple sclerosis …  more…
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html 
College, Teacher 

   Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World  
 
Scientific information about how the senses carry messages to the brain and how the brain interprets those messages. Includes discussion of current research on topics such as colour blindness and deaf…  more…
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/ 
College, Teacher 
  
   She Brains – He Brains  
 
Discusses whether gender affects the brain and therefore the behaviour of men and women.  more…
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   Neuroscience for Kids  
 
Explore your nervous system with experiments and diagrams, look at disorders of the nervous system, play games and there are postcards to send.  more…
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html 
Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

The following items are from the Learning Federation access these through your usual school access or from:

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/for_teachers/catalogues/catalogues.html 

 Body parts: vision  
 
The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 
Look closely at parts of a human eye. Learn how people see: light rays are detected within the eye and electrical messages are sent to the brain. Learn why we have eyebrows, eyelashes and tear ducts. …  more…
Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Lower Secondary 

 Body parts: hearing  
 
The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 
Follow sound waves as they travel through a human ear. Find out how vibrations from the eardrum are translated into electrical messages sent to the brain. Name parts of the human ear. Test your knowle…  more…
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary  
    

So many ideas came from the conference, thanks for your suggestions.

I’ll try to address some of those things in the next few posts.

• Firstly session information from the conference

Kevin Hennah’s website

http://www.kevinhennah.com.au/Library.htm

Peter Gouldthorpe’s webpage

http://www.bdb.com.au/authors_illustrators/gouldthorpe_peter 

Tony Flowers webpage:

http://www.flowersink.com.au/

Jack Heath online:

http://www.jackheath.com.au/

John Heffernan’s website:

http://www.spudplus.com/

Carole Wilkinson’s website:

http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/

Isobel Williams’ presentation – ASLA national and Information Literacy at Ogilvie High School:

asla-conference-aug-2008 

Ken Price’s session

Here is the link to his PowerPoint presentation to help you get started:

http://kenjprice.edublogs.org/

As you can see I have set up a blog which I will use to keep you informed about new websites, information and issues about school libraries  and curriculum materials of relevance to Tasmanian schools and colleges.

I welcome your comments. 

• Secondly some links you requested:

Links for Book Week:

 2008 Book of the Year award winners links [NEW]

 http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/6ad633e0-9c41-790a-61ed-78e0bc28ef60/1/THE+2008+BOOK+OF+THE+YEAR+AWARD+WINNERS.doc

 Fuel your mind…Book Week 2008 : 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/6b3d4236-1d20-8e34-45b4-d279a42cee8b/1/ViewItem.jsp

 National Science Week 2008

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/434b1db4-240e-f032-c417-3a8bac720f21/1/ViewItem.jsp

Olympic Games resources

  Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: teaching materials

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/de484acc-a7b5-46fa-b196-3f4d9f21fc8a/1/ViewItem.jsp

Olympic Games: Beijing 2008

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/ede8d5b0-c61c-3f42-7db2-3c245cf7d82e/1/ViewItem.jsp

The Olympic Games and Music

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/8e486936-99d6-cdd1-22ec-8f9dff68c53f/1/The+Olympic+Games+and+Music.doc

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/f744d04f-cc45-dff6-8df9-31eafad49531/1/ViewItem.jsp

• Thirdly, To see what other materials are available:

For DOE staff:

Information for teachers through the “eCentre for teachers”

http://ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/default.aspx

Information for students through the “Student Freeway”

http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/default.aspx

For non DOE people:

Use the State Library of Tasmania’s “Stuff for Kids” searches in either the Cubby House or the Lounge to see information for students.

http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/kids