Brain Rules Unleashed Ready, Set, THINK!

Things we will address: Nutrition Sleep Vision Stress Exercise

Primary Sources

Goals: Why should I care? Take care of you – take care of your students. Raise Kids to raise test scores Cutting Edge Information and Strategies

Stress

Experience is Job One

Exercise

Food as Fuel

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!!

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

Sleep IS Important!!

Sleep Findings Sleeping after learning grows TWICE as many dendrites Stryker’s 2001

Sleep Patterns

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

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

Video

Attention Please

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

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

Dr. Ron Bonnstetter

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