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Grow Your Brain
Explore current brain research and understand that intelligence isn’t a static thing since you can
develop a growth mindset by engaging in healthy activities and by eliminate unhealthy ones to
become a better learner.
Vocabulary: reactive, growth mindset, processes, neuron, dendrite, connections, neurologist
The Brain & Learning
Explore current brain research and understand that intelligence isn’t a static thing since you can
develop a growth mindset by engaging in healthy activities and by eliminate unhealthy ones to
become a better learner.
Vocabulary: reactive, growth mindset, processes, neuron, dendrite, connections, neurologist
The Brain & Learning
- I can use the terms reactive to describe the bottom layer of my brain and describe some ofthe things controlled here (emotions, automatic processes like heart beating).
- I can explain that the reactive brain’s goal is to ensure survival, so if threatened it engages in three processes flight, fight, and freeze.
- I can explain that my reactive brain will engage in these behaviors when I am stressed, angry,tired, hungry, sad, or traumatized which will interfere with my learning.
- I can explain that day dreaming, going to the bathroom, and moving around are flight behaviors; falling asleep is a freeze behavior, and talking or disrupting class is a fight behavior.
- I can describe and engage in activities that help me control this. (stretching, pattern
- breathing, being hydrated, etc.)
- I can use the term learning to describe the top layer of my brain and describe ways that I can
- change this part of the brain for the better.
- I can make a fold-able that illustrates how the thinking brain processes information.
- I can draw a diagram that shows how neurons and dendrites connect to help me learn and remember.
- I can explain what happens to dendrites when they aren’t used and tell why the learning brain does this.
- I can experiment and record results that show how deep breathing and exercise affect my memory.
- I can research activities that hurt my learning part of the brain.
- I can explore various techniques to develop my own best way to study.