BEN portal, the
National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway for biological
sciences education
URL: http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/htm
Description: The BEN Portal provides access to education
resources from BEN collaborators and is managed by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over
4,701 reviewed resources covering 77 biological sciences
topics are available. BEN resources can help you engage
student interest, shorten lesson preparation time, provide
concept updates, and develop curricula that are in line with
national standards for content, use of animals and humans,
and student safety
MERLOT
URL: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Description: This is a peer
reviewed online teaching and learning material site intended
to permit the sharing of expertise about education with
expert colleagues.
MIT open
courseware consortium (MIT/Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/index.htm
Description: This is a free and
open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and
self-learners around the world. This contains MIT course
materials and is published by MIT.
· Does not require any registration
· Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
· Does not provide access to MIT faculty
MERLOT
URL: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewPortfolio.htm?id=98021
Description: A collection of 25 online neuroscience
short courses each available from the Merlot personal
collection site
Neuroguide Best
Bets
URL: http://www.neuroguide.com/bestbets.html
Description: A searchable and browsable index of
neuroscience resources available on the Internet:
Neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry,
psychology, cognitive science sites and information on human
neurological diseases
Mark Dublin’s
Material at U of Colorado
URL: http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/teaching/index.html
Description: Personal collection of material on
neuroscience
Richard
Olivo’s students
URL: http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/NeuroSci/courses/bio330/pedsites.html
Description: Smith college list of useful Web sites with
tutorials and other pedagogical resources
that were selected by students in neurophysiology during the
spring of 2002
The Neuron
Connection
URL: http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Concepts/Html/theneuronconnection.html
Description: a resource that is available on line to all
Neuroscience instructors and students. It contains tested
labs that span the breadth of the discipline from cells to
behavior, and also the depth of the field from community
college to first year graduate school level. In addition,
simulated experiments and guided simulation tutorials are
included which should be valuable for students at
institutions where class size, equipment costs and
requirements for technical assistance make real laboratories
impractical or unaffordable.
• Snail dissection http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Concepts/Html/snail.html
• Modeling Parkinson's disease http://www.davidson.edu/neuroscience/neuronconnection/sim.asp
William
Heitler's Tutorial
URL: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wjh/neurotut/mempot.html
The Origin of
the Resting Membrane Potential
URL: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wjh/
Sheep Brain
Dissection
URL: http://academic.scranton.edu/department/psych/sheep/
Navigable Atlas
of the Sheep Brain
URL: http://www.msu.edu/user/brains/sheepatlas/
Comparative
Mammalian Brain Collections
URL: http://www.brainmuseum.org/index.htm
Neurons in
Action
URL: http://neuronsinaction.com/
Description: Neurons in Action is a unique learning tool
combining hyperlinked text with simulations of laboratory
experiments. The user carries out interactive simulations of
laboratory experiments with the professional research
computer simulator NEURON, developed at Duke and Yale
Universities by Michael Hines and John W. Moore. The
tutorials are designed as a sequence but portions may be
used selectively in teaching undergraduate, graduate, or
medical students.
UT Houston’s
Simulator for Neural Networks and Action Potentials (SNNAP)
URL: http://snnap.uth.tmc.edu/
Description: SNNAP is a tool for rapid development and
simulation of realistic models of single neurons and neural
networks. It includes mathematical descriptions of ion
currents and intracellular second messengers and ions. In
addition, you can simulate current flow in multi-compartment
models of neurons by using the equations describing electric
coupling. SNNAP also includes mathematical descriptions of
intracellular second messengers and ions, and simulate the
modulation of membrane currents and synaptic transmission,
either enhancement or inhibition.
Crawdad
URL: http://www.crawdad.cornell.edu/
Description: The "Crawdad Project" was a
three-year (1996-8) program funded by the National Science
Foundation to promote the use of invertebrates in
undergraduate physiology and neuroscience courses. The
program culminated with the production of a CD-ROM
laboratory manual. During each year of the program, a
workshop for college teachers was conducted at Cornell
University. These were held in June of 1996, 1997, and 1998.
The purpose of the workshops was twofold: first, to give
teachers hands-on experience with invertebrate preparations
so they can incorporate them into classes and second, to
allow ongoing testing and evaluation of instructional
materials in the making.
Fruitfly
Description:
Next is Project Fruitfly, which will focus the relationship
between genes and behavior through neurogenetic research on
Drosophila melanogaster and its many neurobehavioral
mutants. It is modeled on Dr. Hoy’s successful Project
Crawdad, a CD-ROM that teaches neurophysiology to students
in labs. The Project Fruitfly CD will provide resource
material for lecture courses as well as novel laboratory
exercises and demonstrations. The laboratory part of the
course will focus on the genetics and neurobiology of
Drosophila; the lectures will go beyond fruitflies to
consider the relationship between genes and behavior in
animals and humans. Dr. Hoy’s target is to develop
undergraduate courses in neurobiology, psychology, and
genetics as well as workshops for teachers. The outcome is
to encourage geneticists to teach neurobehavioral subject
matter and neurobiologists to teach about neurogenetics. The
CD-ROM has potential for wide distribution in biology
curricula, ranging from introductory biology courses to
graduate seminars.
JUNE (Journal
of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education)
URL: http://www.funjournal.org/
Description: JUNE is an online journal for undergraduate
neuroscience faculty that publishes peer-reviewed reports of
innovations in undergraduate neuroscience education. JUNE
serves as a mechanism for faculty to exchange information
regarding topics such as laboratory exercises, new media,
curricular considerations, and teaching methods.
Guide to
Neuroscience Education Resources
URL: http://www.beemnet.com/dana/
(Dead link)
Neuroscience
Education - Project from Williams College
URL: http://www.williams.edu/imput/using_site.html
Article by
Tanner on Making Neuroscience Education Connections
URL: http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/5/2/85
Film Used in
High Schools
URL: http://www.films.com/id/10325/Animated_Neuroscience_and_the_Action_of_Nicotine_Cocaine_and_Marijuana_in_the_Brain.htm
