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Program Director:
Dr. Timothy Ebner
Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School-Twin Cities
LRB Room 421, 2001 6th Street, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
6126269200
ebner001@umn.edu
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BrainScience on the Move is a neuroscience program offered by the University of Minnesota's Department of Neuroscience and the Science Museum of Minnesota. This collaboration combines the academic resources of the University's Medical School with the staff and infrastructure of the Science Museum of Minnesota to offer unique neuroscience education to 5-8th grade teachers, particularly in urban and outstate regions. The program:
1) brings neuroscience education to underexposed areas of the state;
2) excites students about science and improves their knowledge about neuroscience;
3) improves science education in neuroscience; and
4) fosters partnerships among schools, communities, university scientists, and science museum educators.
Middle school science teachers are invited to participate in "BrainU", a two week-long summer Teacher Neuroscience Institute, to train them in teaching their students about neuroscience. BrainU utilizes inquiry-based strategies and incorporates the national science standards and state curricular requirements for teaching and professional development. As "graduates" of BrainU, teachers receive several school visits from University neuroscience and Science Museum staff. These professionals deliver an exciting "Explain Your Brain" multi-media assembly and intensive small group hands-on exhibit sessions to students. In addition, University staff return to these classrooms to assist teachers in presenting specific class activities. Class activities have been developed by University faculty in collaboration with teachers to provide engaging activities for students to explore neuroscience and its relationship with their own lives. BrainTrunks provide the materials to conduct the program's class activities along with additional resources to supplement the implementation of a neuroscience curriculum.
One unexpected problem that became evident during meetings with the teacher advisory group was the difficulty in scheduling middle school st
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