Relationship to the National Science Education Standards
The activities in this lesson align with two standards identified in the NSES: history and nature of science and science as inquiry.
|Levels K–4||How Mission Is Aligned|
|Systems, order, and organization||The mission explains the key concept that the brain is part of a larger system—the human body—and that both systems work together to make all human behavior possible.|
|Levels 5-8||How Mission is Aligned|
|Understanding science and technology||Students learn about three devices and how they are used to further knowledge about the brain.|
Cite this article
NIDA. (2012, September 1). Brain Power: Grades 4-5. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/brain-power/brain-power-grades-4-5