WHAT: Over 140 third and fourth graders from the St. Donato School, Saint Francis DeSales School, and the Swarthmore-Rutledge School 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 (http://www.psych.upenn.edu/bbb/KidsJudgeNeuroscience.htm).
Highlights:
- Brainapalooza: Faculty and students let the student judges see and handle all kinds of brains. Very hands-on, very yucky-cool.
- Save-A-Head gets the students thinking about the fragility of the brain and the importance of protecting it with helmets. Students experiment protecting a brain (actually an egg) with all kinds of materials.
- Sweet & Sour Science: Students look at the neural pathways from taste buds to brain to explain how we taste our food and how our brain knows what flavor of food we are eating.
WHEN: Wednesday, December 1, 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 for Neurosciences 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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