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Watch your thoughts! Diagnostic imaging and the brain

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A lesson plan for grades 9–12 Science

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This lesson from Science NetLinks provides students with a brief introduction to various diagnostic imaging technologies used in brain research. They will explore how these technologies have provided answers about the structure and function of the brain and the new questions they have enabled scientists to ask. Keep in mind that the focus is on the imaging technologies themselves and not on the detailed structure and function of the brain.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Science (2005)

Grade 9–12 — AP Biology

  • Goal 6: The learner will develop an understanding of the unity and diversity of life.
    • Objective 6.05: Examine the structure and function of plants and animals.
      • Analyze reproduction, growth, and development.
        • Patterns
        • Adaptations (e.g. alternation of generations).
        • Regulation as by hormones.
      • Recommended laboratory - Transpiration
      • Analyze structural, physiological, and behavioral adaptations.
        • Cell level.
        • Tissue level.
        • Organ level.
        • Interactions between levels of organization.
      • Recommended laboratories - Physiology of the Circulatory System, Animal Behavior
      • Identify responses to the environment.