Resources for Teachers

Experiments with Brains

In this activity, the students will compare the relative sizes of structures in the brain of three species and try to draw conclusions from those measurements.

The resource packet contains:

  1. A pdf file with the instructions and labels.
  2. A pdf file with all the brain images.
  3. The student worksheets.
  4. A Powerpoint presentation.
  5. The printable grids at normal and 4x zoom.
* Credit for the cartoon images go to PopCap games' Plants vs Zombies.