WHAT |
Over 140 third and fourth graders from the Penn Alexander School, the St. Donato School, and the Sterck/Delaware School for the Deaf will spend a morning on the Penn campus “judging” hands-on science activities developed by students at Penn, including undergraduate Biological Basis of Behavior program majors and graduate students in neuroscience.
Highlights:
- Brainapalooza: Faculty and students let the judges see and handle all kinds of brains. Very hands-on, very yucky-cool.
- Food for Thought: Ever wonder how your stomach communicates with your brain so you know you’re hungry or full? Wonder no longer! Judges take this journey along the road between stomach and brain and see how it all works, and why.
- Left Brain/Right Brain What? We use both sides of our brain for something as simple as tying our shoes? Watch as two students cooperate to tie a shoelace while each only uses one free hand.
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WHEN |
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Prime judging time: 9:30am- 11:30am |
WHERE |
Houston Hall Hall of Flags
3417 Spruce Street, Ground Floor
http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/map.php |
WHO |
The Penn KidsJudge! Fair, a national education program designed to make scientists better communicators and elementary school children better scientists, is sponsored by Penn’s Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences and the Biological Basis of Behavior Program. The Fair is also made possible in part by grants from the National Kids Judge! Partnership, the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, and National Institute on Drug Abuse. |
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