• 21st Century Biology -  "21st Century Biology is an experimental course that discards the usual method of teaching and replaces it with a research approach. This exposes students to modern research techniques while promoting critical thinking and problem solving that is student centered and teacher facilitated. As a result, students gain an appreciation of scientific research while they master key concepts from the core of cell biology. Students are no longer the passive recipients of knowledge, but acquire it actively and through collaborative effort to complete the research and produce scientific posters."
• 21st Century Learning Initiative - John Abbott and Terence Ryan
• A Cautionary Note on Brain Research - Catherine Paglin
• American Academy of Neurology
• BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR - " Serendip is a gathering place for people who suspect that life's instructions are always ambiguous and incomplete. Originating in interactions among neurobiologists, computer scientists, business people, and educators, Serendip is both an expanding forum and a continually developing set of resources to explore and support intellectual and social change in education, in social organization... and in how one makes sense of life."
• Brain and Education  - Brynmawr
• Brain Awareness Week  - Homepage of Brain Awareness Week
• Brain Based Learning - Graduate Student Research in Education
• Brain Based Learning: Another Passing Fad?  - by Aylin Atakent & Nil Zelal Akar, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• Brain Connection - BrainConnection.com is a Web resource from Scientific Learning
• Brain Development - University of Washington
• BRAIN DOs AND BRAIN DON'Ts - The Amen Clinic For Behavioral Medicine
• Brain Expo - Improved Student Achievement Through Applied Brain Research
• Brain Gym
• Brain on Drugs - by Dr. Kathie F. Nunley
• Brain Research Bulletin - Brain Research Bulletin is an official journal of the International Neuroscience Society
• Brain Research Concepts - Robert Sylwester, Celebrating Neurons
• Brain Research Internet Resources - University of Missouri. "This page is an attempt to give you some internet resources dealing with brain research. I have subdivided the page into 3 areas: Brain Research, Multiple Intelligence, and Learning Styles."
• Brain research oversold experts say - "D.C. School Superintendent Paul L. Vance often says he plans to revamp early childhood education with the 'latest brain research.' The only problem: Top brain researchers say it can't be done."
• Brain Research: Decade of the Brain - "From 1990 to the end of 1999, the Library of Congress and the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health sponsored a unique interagency initiative to advance the goals set forth in a proclamation by President George Bush designating the 1990s as the Decade of the Brain: "to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research" through "appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities." To achieve this public recognition, the LC/NIMH Project on the Decade of the Brain sponsored a variety of activities including publications and programs aimed at introducing Members of Congress, their staffs, and the general public to cutting-edge research on the brain and encouraging public dialogue on the ethical, philosophical, and humanistic implications of these emerging discoveries."
• Brain-Based Dimensions of Learning  - Prince George's County Public Schools
• Brain-Based Learning - by Emmett Farrar
• Brain-Based Learning - Hartland, Vermont K-12
• Brain-Based Learning - Wadsworth Central Middle School
• Brain-Based Learning -  by Annette Lamb
• Brain-Based Learning Articles -Middleweb
• Brain-based Learning Principles - by Jeffery A. Lackney
• Brain-based learning: The brain is the seat of all learning -  by James R. Lawson
• Brain-Based Learning: Truth or Deception - Jensen Learning
• Brain-Compatible Learning Chatboard - Teachers' Net
• BrainConnection: The Brain and Learning - "BrainConnection.com is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn. Many discoveries are being made in areas that relate to the human brain, including language, memory, behavior, and aging, as well as illness and injury. We believe that access to this information can provide practical tools for teaching and learning as well as valuable insights into almost every aspect of our daily lives."
• Brains.org: Practical classroom applications of current brain research.
• BrainWonders:  Helping babies and toddlers grow and develop - Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• BrainyKids - Fun lab lesson plans
• Cell Suicide - by James Weber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Child's Play - NPR transcript about brain research
• Child's play - PBS transcript
• Cognitive Neuroscience Resources on the Internet: Homepages (CNBC) - The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• Connecting technology with brain research. -  "This site and its contents are Copyright © 2004 Area Education Agency 267 (AEA 267), 3712 Cedar Heights Drive, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613, (319) 273-8200, except where otherwise noted. All rights reserved."
• Cranial Nerve - Eric H. Chudler
• Creative Learning Connection, Inc. -- Carolyn Chapman, multiple intelligences and brain based learning.
• Creatology: Brain Science for the 21st Century - Caroline L. Davies
• Dana Alliance for Brain Research - Dana Corporation
• Dana Alliance Neuroscience Education Resources
• Developing habits of the mind " The development of creative and critical thinking is "at-risk" during school years. Unless students develop habits of using their minds well in their learning, students are unlikely to develop these habits later in life. Despite this, classroom and test questions continue to challenge students almost exclusively on the superficial level of recognizing and recalling isolated bits of information. Teachers wait and give students an average of less that a second of thinking time after asking a question and after hearing a student answer. As testing moves toward open-ended questions and, in some states, toward authentic problem-tasks, and as our students head into a future of increased change and unknown challenges, educational reform must shift the focus of learning to habits of mind associated with problem sensitivity and problem solving. The following sites reflect useful work and models for doing this."
• Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases: Interactive brain - "The Digital Anatomist Project is motivated by the belief that anatomy is the basis of all the biomedical sciences (including clinical medicine). Manifestations of health and disease can be regarded as attributes of anatomical structures ranging in size from molecules to body parts. Therefore our goal is to represent anatomy in a comprehensive and consistent way, which should meet the needs of all biomedical applications that require anatomical knowledge. Moreover, a logical and consistent representation of anatomy should facilitate the modeling of all biomedical information, including the patient record. We have pursued two parallel tracks for representing anatomical information: 1. The generation of graphical models derived from cadaver and clinical imaging data; and 2. Symbolic modeling of the structures and relationships that constitute the human body. Our initial work with graphical representations of anatomy provided the impetus and motivation for the National Library of Medicine to establish the Visible Human Project, and our symbolic modeling has enhanced NLM's Unified Medical Language System in order to represent deep anatomical knowledge. In collaboration with the knowledge systems group at Stanford, we have now created a very large knowledge base which provides the foundation for the machine-based intelligence needed to remotely interact with biomedical image data. Our group is unique in that we are pursuing graphical and symbolic representations of anatomy in parallel and then integrate graphical and symbolic models. We believe that such an 'intelligent' anatomical model is a requirement for next-generation applications in biomedical research and clinical medicine. Our results to date give credence to an ambitious and long term vision which we are committed to realizing."
• Doomed before Kindergarten? "As an early interventionist, concentrating on children 0-3 years of age, we have been taught about the importance of the early years of life. The plasticity of the brain, and its ability to learn is at a rate unmatched at any other time of life. Now, some information that points to the fact that the brain continues to be able to expand and is better at it than previously believed. The teen years may present a second window of opportunity."
• Drug Effects - Dr. Kathie F. Nunley
• Eduscape's brain-based learning site
• First Hour: Brain Research/comet Science, Audio from NPR program
• From Brain Scan to Lesson Plan - byBridget Murray
• Growing Bigger Brains: Research Affects How Teachers Teach -  by Linda Starr
• Hale brain-based learning resources site - Pepperdine University
• Hitchhiker's Guide to Brain Science - "Susan Rich Sheridan is an artist, writer, parent and teacher. She received her undergraduate degree in Classics and English from Harvard College and her MAT and her doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dr. Sheridan has taught English and Art at the middle school, high school and college levels for the past twenty years. Dr. Sheridan’s theory of education Neuroconstructivism, and her cross-modal practice Drawing/Writing are the result of twenty years of on-going teaching and field research."
• How Brain Compatible is the Internet? - by Alysa Cummings, ETTC of Burlington
• How Can Research on the Brain Inform Education? - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
• How can research on the brain inform education?.
• How does a brain store a mind? -  Paul Pietsch
• Human Brain User's Manual - Alamo Community College District
• Illinois Loop: Brain-Based Learning - "The "experts" who decide what's hot in education have been positively gushing about the latest craze: "brain-based learning." The idea is that modern understanding of the brain helps us to find better ways for kids to learn. Sounds great...The problem is that few if any reputable neuroscientists agree with that premise, and that the main evangelists for this cult are professional lecturers and new-age philosophers who have little or no formal background in the subject."
• Implications for Second Language Learning - Center for Applied Linguistics
• In Search of . . .Brain-Based Education - by John T. Bruer
• Infant Crying and the Brain  - Relationship and effects of brain development and crying.
• In-Sites for Brain-Compatible Learning - Online courses.
• Instrumental Enrichment / Mediated Learning - "Independent IE/MLE website that provides an open discussion list, and a bookstore which includes related publications. Instrumental Enrichment (IE) and Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) are based on the work of Israel"
• International Brain Research Organization - BRO 51 Bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France
• International Consortium for Brain Mapping - "The International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM) was formed in 1993 with a grant from the NIMH. The primary goal of the ICBM project is the continuing development of a probabilistic reference system for the human brain."
• Is the Fuss About Brain Research Justified? - by David A. Sousa
• IssueTrak Briefing Papers: The Brain and Learning - Bob Valiant
• Jensen Learning Center - Brain Based Learning Truth or Deception
• JFK Center for Research - A national center for research on mental retardation and other disabilities
• Kids' Brain Power - by Steve Nadia
• Layered Curriculum - "The simplest way to differentiate instruction and teach in mixed-ability classrooms is with a simple method called Layered Curriculum (tm). Developed by Kathie Nunley, a high school teacher in Salt Lake City, the method allows students to learn at their own level, in their own learning style and demands the highest accountability standards."
• Learning to Go with the Grain of the Brain - "This article by John Abbott and Terence Ryan appeared in the Spring, 1999 issue of Education Canada"
• Learning Windows and the Child's Brain -  by Amy Markezich
• Learning: What we've learned - by  Beth Conant
• Making Connections: How Children Learn - A Summary of Brain Research
• Male-Female Differences - by The Amen Clinics Inc., A Medical Corporation
• Mind Over Matter - Grades 5-9
• Muscial Brain  - by Paul Pietsch
• Music and the Brain - by Paul Pietsch
• MuSICA: Music and Science Information Computer Archive. - "MuSICA currently provides all issues of MuSICA Research Notes. MRN is a newsletter of analysis and commentary on the broad field of research on music and behavior, including evolution, brain mechanisms, child development, perception, learning, memory, performance, health and related topics. The author of all material is Dr. Norman M. Weinberger."
• Nature, Nurture and Early Brain Development - University of Missouri. Published by University Extension
• Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology on the Internet - by Katalin Hegedüs
• Neuroscience Education Tools for Scientists, Teachers and Parents
• Neuroscience for Kids
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 10
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 12
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 3
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 4
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 5
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 6
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 7
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 8
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 9
• Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 1
• Neuroscience Resources for Kids - Brain Awareness Week (1999)
• Parenting on the Brain - Education Week article
• Parenting on the Brain, What brain research implies about the need for good parenting skills
• PBS: Brain Development in Babies - "Recent scientific studies have found that the human brain does much of its development in a child's first three years of life. These findings could have a significant impact on the way children are raised and how childcare is funded. Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports."
• PBS:  Pieces of Mind -  "Each SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS program is accompanied by an online teaching guide filled with science activities. Our guides are presented in an easy-to-print format, and educators are encouraged to download and photocopy these materials for use in the classroom."
• Practical Classroom Application of Current Brain Research
• Principles of Brain Compatible Learning (slideshow)
• Principles of Brain-Based Learning - developed by the Combined Elementary Task Forces of the Metropolitan Omaha Educational Consortium (MOEC), Omaha.
• ProTeacher! Brain research and information about brain development
• Rethinking the Brain: New Insights into Early Development - by Rima Shore
• Society for Neuroscience.
• Stanford Brain Research Center
• Starting Smart: The Ounce of Prevention Fund
• Surprising truths: Implications of brain research -by Maria Almendarez Barron
• Teachers.Net - Companies sell learning kits "based on the latest brain research," and professional development consultants peddle the concept to teachers.
• Teachnology's site for brain-based learning - ERIC articles
• The Adolescent Brain - by  Kathie F. Nunley
• The brain and learning - acific University
• The Brain Connection
• The Brain, Feelings and Health - by Yvonne French
• The Harvard Brain, Newsletters.
• The Human Brain: Dissections of the Real Brain - The University of Iowa, College of Medicine
• The Neurosciences Institute
• The Salk Institute.
• The scribble hypothesis: A plea for brain-compatible teaching and learning. - by S.R. Sheridan
• The Twelve Principles for Brain-Based Learning - Sonoma County Department of Education
• The Virtual Brain - University of Minnesota
• The Virtual Hospital: The Human Brain - University of Iowa
• The Whole Brain Atlas - Keith A. Johnson and J. Alex Becker
• Time Magazine: What Parents Can Do
• Using Technology in a Brain Compatible Learning Environment - by Kathy Dorner
• Westmark School - Multiple Intelligences, Learning Styles, Brain Development
• What Does a ‘Brain-Compatible’ Classroom Look Like? - Davenport Community Schools
• What Does Research Say About Early Childhood Education? - S. Bredekamp, R.A. Knuth, L.G. Kunesh, and D.D. Shulman
• Why Punishment-Based Systems Don't Work - by Kathie F. Nunley
• WUSM Neuorscience Tutorial
• Your Child's Brain Development 1-5 - The Kansas City Kid infoZine
• Zero to Three - National Center For Infants, Toddlers and Families.

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