Backyard Brains: Bringing Neurophysiology Into Secondary Schools
Backyard Brains: Bringing Neurophysiology Into Secondary Schools
批准号:
9347753
负责人:
Gregory John Gage
金额:
$78.4万
依托单位:
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
财政年份:
2017
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2017-05-19 至 2020-04-30
关键词:
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Project Summary
Deciphering how the brain functions remains one of the great challenges remaining to humanity, intriguing
scientific professionals and the public equally. The notorious complexity of the nervous system results in neural
diseases remaining widespread and difficult to treat. Tools for studying the brain are often difficult to use and
only available to graduate students and scientists in large research universities. Providing accessible
neuroscience research tools and educational equipment for high schools will accelerate neuroscience
innovation by exposing future scientists, engineers, and doctors to principles of nervous system function at
much earlier stages in their careers. Implementing electrophysiology and other neuroscience techniques into
K12 education has historically been difficult to the lack of affordable tools combined with compelling and
accessible learning materials.
To address this need, we are developing a neuroscience curriculum based on graduatelevel neuroscience
research tools that can be used in the High School Classroom.
1) The “SpikerBox”: a family of bioamplifiers that are easytouse, inexpensive (<$100), portable, and can
detect and record the action potentials of the nervous system of invertebrates, action potentials of
human muscles (EMG), the electrical signature of the heart (EKG), and the electrical oscillations of the
human brain (EEG).
2) The “RoboRoach”: a wireless neural stimulator for investigating insect behavior.
3) The “OptoStimmer”: a fully portable mobile phone based miniature microscope and electrophysiology
apparatus enabling optogenetic experiments in fruit flies in high school classrooms.
4) The “SpikerShield”: a human interface toolkit that allows students to connect their bodies’ electrical
signals (from muscles, heart, eyes, and brain) into creative engineering team projects such as robotic
grippers, computer mice, musical instruments, video game interfaces, and prosthetic models.
5) A Comprehensive student neuroscience text and Teacher manual that focuses on problembased
instructional neuroscience units, with guidance for managing a problembased classroom.
As neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field encompassing biology, medicine, mathematics, and engineering,
the educational tools and materials to be developed here will improve learning in STEMrelated disciplines and
inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and physicians.
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资助金额:$59.95万
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负责人:Gregory John Gage
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依托单位:
海外基金