Worksheets & low-cost activities

Become a Brain Detective

1. 1Choose one real moment from today — learning, emotion, movement, memory, sleep, stress, attention, or sensation.
2. 2Describe the moment in one or two sentences, then note what you sensed, felt, or decided.
3. 3Identify which parts of the nervous system might be involved and where neurons could be receiving or sending information.
4. 4Turn the moment into a neuroscience question using: How does [a brain process] affect [a feeling/behavior/skill] when [a condition changes]?

Human Neuron Chain

1. 1Line up with 4–5 friends or family members holding hands.
2. 2The first person squeezes the next person's hand as fast as they can pass it along.
3. 3Time it! You just modeled how a signal jumps from neuron to neuron.

Design Your Study Ritual

1. 1Pick one subject you're struggling with.
2. 2Design a 20-minute session: 5 min recall from memory, 10 min learn new material, 5 min teach it aloud to an empty chair.
3. 3Sleep on it. Try again tomorrow. Notice what stuck.

Role Model + Future Self

1. 1Search one woman in STEM whose story moves you. Write her name and one sentence about her.
2. 2Write one future goal of your own — big or small.
3. 3Draw a bridge between her name and your goal.