1. Bell Ringer
List the parts of our nervous system.

2. Nervous System

3. Nervous System
Tasting,_______, seeing, hearing, thinking,___________, breathing, heart beating, moving, running, sleeping,__________, singing, remembering, feeling pain or pleasure, painting, writing...you couldn't do any of these things without your central nervous system!
smelling
Dreaming
laughing

4. What is the nervous system?
Made up of your________, your spinal_______, and ________that thread throughout your body.
It's the _________center for your entire body.
Your brain uses information it receives from your nerves to coordinate all of your actions and reactions. Without it, you couldn't exist!
brain
cord
nerves
control

5. What are nerves?
They're the _____threads of nerve cells, called __________that run throughout your body.
they carry messages back and forth just the way that telephone wires do.
__________nerves ______messages ____the brain and generally connect to the brain through the spinal cord inside your backbone.
________nerves carry messages ______the brain to all the muscles and glands in your body.
thin
neurons
send
Sensory to
Motor
from

6. So how do they pass along messages?
__________are thin. Some are very small, and some can be three feet long! All are shaped somewhat like flat ________which have long fingers. The fingers of one neuron almost reach to the next neuron, to ______on information.
Neurons
stars
pass

7. Remind you of anything?
How about a cool relay of dominoes in which one standing domino falls and trips the next and the next and the next.

8. The Brain

9. Bell ringer
Describe the path a message would travel if you touch a hot plate