PBS offers excursions into the working of the brain.

Follow up exercise: Have students “relive” the probing of the motor cortex that was done in the 1940s by Canadian brain surgeon Wilder Penfield.

 

The Scalable Brain Atlas is a fully web-based source for brain atlases, imaging data and topologies. You have a chance to explore the brain in a 3D interactive context.

Follow up exercise: Ask students to explore the human brain. What did they find surprising? Do they know what each lobe is primarily dedicated to? Can they identify other structures?

 

This Brain Atlas offers views of the normal brain, but also the brain affected by various disorders.

Follow up exercise: Ask students to explore the human brain under different brain conditions. Can they identify any of the disorders? What is the typical brain deterioration in individual disorders?