How Does Your Brain Grow? Program
Brain Development Websites

Links to More Information on Brain Development & Its Implications:

I Am Your Child. Contains information about brain research, developmental information on children age 0-3, resources and much more. (http://www.iamyourchild.org)

Zero to Three. Another information-rich source of information for parents and professionals. Contains research and information on physical, congnitive and social development of children from birth to age three. (http://www.zerotothree.org)

Early Years are Learning Years: Brain development research -- What it means for young children and families. Produced by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Also contains implications for policy and practice. (http://www.naeyc.org/naeyc/eyly/eyly9711.htm)

Carnegie Corporation Starting Points. Contains information about the national Starting Points Project and other states' and cities' initiatives. (http://www.carnegie.org/startingpoints/)

Making Connections: How Children Learn. A summary of recent brain research written as part of the American Reads Challenge. (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ReadWithMe/makconn.html)

Brain Development Contains information and graphics that show how the brain develops. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/dev.html)

Brain Research Manifests Importance of First Years. An Article from the February 16, 1997, News & Observer. (http://xenocide.nando.net/nao/2little2late/stories/
day1-main.html)

Brain BootCamp Information for educators at all levels to help them become consumer-literate in the field of educationally relevant brain research, the biology of learning and brain campatible teaching and learning methodology. (http://library.thinkquest.org/50072/brainbasics.htm)

Early Childhood Development and Learning: Ten Key Lessons. from the U.S. Department of Education. (http://oeri2.ed.gov/pubs/How_Children/
IIEarlychildhood.html)

From the Idaho State Library Reading and Literacy Site
(http://www.lili.org/isl/readtome/rlbrain.htm#link)