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General
https://fr.brainpop.com/sciencesdelavie/cerveauettroublesneurologiques/
French science website. It has a great animation of neural transmission.

http://richannel.org/christmas-lectures/2011/meet-your-brain#/christmas-lectures-2011-bruce-hood--whats-in-your-head
Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, these annual lectures explain scientific concepts to young people and were founded by none other than Michael Faraday. This years’ lectures were all about the brain and can be watched here, Note there are three lectures to watch. They provide a good exemplar in terms of pitching and communicating science to young minds. 

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca

http://www.brainrules.net/about-brain-rules
You can find nice presentations and animations about topics like survival, attention, sleep etc.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/brain-games/

http://www.dana.org/neuroeducation/
This website includes resources useful for teaching specifically about the brain, including links to lesson plans and interactive child-friendly websites, as well as information and news (recent studies) on neuroscience education.

http://dana.org/resources/brainykids/
Link page to interactive child-friendly websites about the brain.
Big Picture Fast Facts.pdf
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Big Picture The Brain.pdf
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Science Says (Olympic games)
Some cool videos created by Science Says on the brain and athletic performance.
http://www.cbc.ca/sochi2014/sciencesays/

Memory
http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/
A site with some student friendly memory articles and resources.​
Stroop Task
stroop poster - English.pdf
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stroop poster - French.pdf
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A kid-friendly (i.e. 4th grade) version of the Stroop task.
History of neurosciences
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/hist.html

Pictures/animations of brain, neurons etc.
http://www.g2conline.org/2022
3D rendered brain which can be used to highlight various structures.

Case study
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvck
For a good collection of interesting anecdotes about various curious brain pathologies try listening to this lecture series by the mighty Rhamachandran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ4shANmIN8
A reporter with aphasia due to migraines.

Illusions
McGurk effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0
Another video of the same effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUf0672xAOU
For Francophones (the effect has to be with phonemes from your language) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xi2di_l-effet-mcgurk_school

Shepard tone illusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugriWSmRxcM
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Myths and Legends
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/iain_mcgilchrist_the_divided_b.php