10th Graders Enjoy Neuroscience Lessons from UVA Grad Students

The 10th grade integrated program is currently tackling the essential question of "Why do we do what we do?" In science class, students have been exploring this question through topics in Neuroscience, including questions about the subjectivity of human perception and the varying levels of control we have over our nervous system. On Thursday, graduate students from the UVA Neuroscience department came to visit the 10th grade science classes to share some of their work and their lab equipment. Students were able to engage with demos to help them learn more about how the brain sends motor signals to our muscles via electricity, and they also had the option to see some real brains, intact and in cross sections. There was even a tiny mouse brain in a test tube!