Come Prepared

Plan your visit. For information about reservations, transportation, and lunchrooms, visit amnh.org/education/plan.

Read the Essential Questions in this guide to see how themes in Brain: The Inside Story connect to your curriculum. Identify the key points that you'd like your students to learn from the exhibition.

Review the Teaching in the Exhibition section of this guide for an advance look at the objects, models, and interactives that you and your class will be encountering.

Review activities and student worksheets. Designed for use before, during, and after your visit, these activities focus on themes that correlate to the NYS Science Core Curriculum:

• Sensing our Environment (grades K–5)
• Senses and Survival (grades 6–8)
• Brain and Neurons (grades 9–12)

Decide how your students will explore Brain: The Inside Story. Suggestions include:

• You and your chaperones can facilitate the visit using the Teaching in the Exhibition section of this guide.
  
  
• Your students can use the student worksheets to explore the exhibition on their own or in small groups.
  
  
• Students, individually or in groups, can use copies of the map to choose their own paths.