How Your Brain Understands What Your Ears Hear

  • Students learn to understand the interrelationship of hearing, language, and human communication
  • Grades 7–8 | © 2003 | Standards based
  • Five lessons designed to be taught in sequence for one to two weeks, featuring web-based components including interactive database and simulations
  • Developed by using the BSCS 5E Instructional Model
  • This complimentary module is available from National Institutes of Health (NIH)

In How Your Brain Understands What Your Ears Hear, students develop healthy hearing habits so they avoid noise-induced hearing loss. Lessons in this module help students understand important scientific concepts by sharpening their skills in observation, critical thinking, experimental design, and data analysis. This module stresses to students the importance of scientific research and students are encouraged to think about the relationships among knowledge, choice, behavior, and human health. The real-life context of the module's classroom lessons is engaging, and the knowledge gained can be applied immediately to students' lives.

This curriculum supplement was funded by the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education (NIH OSE). It was developed by BSCS in cooperation with the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the NIH.

Student Lessons

  1. Getting the Message
  2. Sound Communication
  3. Do You Hear What I Hear?
  4. A Black Box Problem: How Do I Hear?
  5. Too Loud, Too Close, Too Long

To order your complimentary copy of this supplement or for more information, visit the NIH OSE website.