The Brain & Development

Brain Research

• What role should it play?

• pro:

• con:

• General Feelings

• Myth or Fact?

• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - by David Eagleman

• CNN’s Next List

• Excerpt on Logic p.85 & 86

Neuroscientist Spotlight: David Eagleman

• 3 Questions - Grade Your Brain

• braingames.nationalgeographic.com/episode/6/

Brain games???

• outer-layer of gray matter / cerebral cortex

• 2 hemispheres / each with 4 main areas (frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe)

• neurons send signals through synapses

Brain Structure and

synapse - the means by which neurons send information to other

cells

dendrites - branch-like; receive messages from

other neurons

How the Brain Develops

• “over-production” then “neural pruning” (Bohlin et. al., 2012, p.104)

• “use it or lose it”

• synaptogenesis - the growth of new connections in the brain

Choose one topic from the text to reread. Come up with a short sentence to summarize how teachers use brain research to teach in regards to (memory/reading, etc.)

• Memory -

• Reading -

• Math -

• Emotion -

Informing our

• The Brain & Education (6 minutes)

• 3 Categories: “Terms from Text” , “3 Interesting Facts” and “How I teach”

Informing our

Create an “anatomy of the brain” model for the typical student you might encounter while teaching/counseling/

helpingDraw or color on paper. Or try using an app like “Paper”

if you want to take that extra step. You may choose to hand this in to replace any 1 module organizer of your

choosing.

Brain Anatomy

Example # 1

Example # 2

Extra Resources

• Top 5 Unsolved Brain Mysteries

• Research in Brain Function and Learning

• Teen Brain Interview with Jay Giedd

• Articles About the Brain