Teaching with the Brain in Mind Ready, Set, THINK!

Experience is Job One

Brain Finding Imperative

Exercise

Tell a relevant story Show a relevant video Do a relevant activity

Sleep IS Important!!

Sleep Findings Sleep deprived children are unable to process and use information as well as those not sleep deprived. Stryker’s 2001 Recommendations: Sleeping after learning grows TWICE as many neural dendrites as just learning the material

Average daily sleep needs: Adolescents – Teens hours Newborn Babies 0-2 months: hours Infants 2-12 months: hours Toddler months: hours 18 months-3 years: hours Preschoolers 3-5 years: hours 1st - 8th Graders (5-12 years) 9-11 hours Mature : On average: 7-9 hours

Sleep Patterns for the Adolescent Brain Middle & high school students’ bodies tend to stay up late and sleep in. > 50% of high school students in REM sleep after 3 minutes, should take 90 minutes to get there -- Brown U. study

The myelin sheaths surrounding neurons are not fully developed until early age 25 to 30

Use of artificial neurotransmitters, i.e. caffeine, during the first twelve years may interfere with the nervous systems ability to naturally make them for the rest of a person’s life!! Recommendation:

Brain Finding Imperative

...Refined Sugar, everything of food value has been removed except the carbohydrates-pure calories, without vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, enzymes or any of the other elements that make up food

Video

15  13  11  9  7  5  Memory Space is Developmental Plus or Minus 2 Chunking as a Strategy

Video

Hooks for Information schema

Emotions

Attention Please

Novelty Rule of 7 Curse of Knowing Exercise Sleep Experience Attention Brain Needs Chunking

Key Sources Nerds.unl.edu/brain Thanks for “Watching” & Interacting!!!

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