1. Your body’s message center Controls all of your body’s actions
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Your body’s message center
Controls all of your body’s actions

2. Brain Rhyme
The answers to each of the next questions rhyme with the word “brain.”
For example, for the question, “A brain on the tracks,” the answer is Brain Train.
There could be more than one correct answer.

3. How many can your group answer? A brain……….
In a storm?
Made a spot?
It hurts?
Most important?
Most logical?
An aide for walking?
Used for bread?
Used to pick things up?
Where it lives?
Overworked?
It flys?
When linked?
A blood vessel
A fake.
Get more.

4. Parts of the Nervous System
Central Nervous System
Somatic System – deal with the _________that you control
Autonomic System – deals with the actions you do ____ control
Peripheral Nervous System

5. How many can you remember?

6. Brain Games http://faculty. washington. edu/chudler/stm0
Brain Games - short term memory

7. The Brain

8. The Brain
The brain is the largest most complex part of the nervous system
The brain weighs ____ pounds
Contains over 100 billion neurons
The brain takes the form of___________, memories, and commands to ________ actions. It allows you to direct your muscles and emotions and everything you sense.
Your brain control involuntary and voluntary processes
Involuntary – movement ________ thought (heartbeat/respiration)
Voluntary – movement ________thought (muscle movement, chewing)

9. Right/Brain Left Brain Quiz Take this test by selecting the answer which best describes you at this present time. Every time you read a description or characteristic that applies to you, select the first response that seems right. After you are done, we’ll evaluate your responses automatically by adding them up. Whichever number is higher represents your dominance. If the numbers are close, that means you use both sides of your brain equally.
I wear a watch
I keep a journal
I believe there is a right and wrong way to do everything
I hate following directions
The expression “Life is just a bowl of cherries” makes no sense to me
I find sticking to a schedule is boring
I’d rather draw someone a map then tell them how to get somewhere
If I lost something, I’d try to remember where I saw it last
If I don’t know usually which way to turn, I let my emotions guide me
I am good at Math
If I had to assemble something, I’d read the directions first
I’m often late getting places
Some people think I am psychic
Setting goals for myself helps keep me from slacking off
When somebody asks me a question, I turn my head to the left
If I have a tough decision to make, so I write down the pros and cons
I’d make a good detective
I am musically inclined

10. 19. If I have a problem, I try to work it out by relating it to one I’ve had in the past 20. When I talk, I gesture a lot 21. If someone asks me a question, I turn my head to the right 22. I believe there are two sides to every story 23. I can tell if someone is guilty just by looking at them 24. I keep a to do list 25. I feel comfortable expressing myself with words 26. Before I take a stand on an issue, I get all the facts 27. I’ve considered becoming a poet, a politician, an architect, or a dancer 28. I lose track of time easily 29. If I forgot someone's name, I’d go through the alphabet until I remembered it 30. I like to draw 31. When I’m confused, I usually go with my gut instinct 32. I have considered becoming a lawyer, journalist, or doctor Tally your answers. (refer to key given to you by the teacher) Are you left brained or right brained?

11. Left vs Right Which Side are you On. http://kidshealth
Auditory Learners
Visual Learners
Prefer schedules and deadlines
Love rules and regulations
Handles organization and logic
Step by step
Disorganized
Make up rules to follow
Lacking in time management
Unable to prioritize
More Common
More analytical/creative in a different way
Concrete thinkers
Less Common
More naturally creative
Abstract Thinkers
Able to express themselves in words
Know what they mean, but trouble finding the right words
Lab Scientist/Banker/Judge/Lawyer/
Mathematician/Libararian
Forest Ranger/Wildlife manager/Artist
Beautician/Politician/Athlete

12. PARTS OF THE BRAIN Meninges Pons Medulla Cerebral Spinal Fluid
Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Brain Stem
Hypothalamus
Pituitary Gland
Meninges
Pons
Medulla
Cerebral Spinal Fluid
PARTS OF THE BRAIN

13. CEREBRUM ____________ part of the brain
Makes up 85% of the brain’s weight
The _________ part of the brain and controls voluntary muscles – you can’t dance or kick a soccer ball without your cerebrum
Memory –_______term and _______term memory lives in the_______________
Has two halves – the right half and left half

14. Frontal Lobe – top/front region – reasoning/emotions/judgement/voluntary
Occipital Lobe – vision and reading ability (at the back of the head)
Parietal Lobe – contains important sensory center (upper rear of head)
Temporal Lobe – centers of hearing and memory (sides of head)

15. CEREBELLUM Controls___________, movement, and________________
Located in the back of the brain underneath the cerebrum
Controls___________, movement, and________________
Because of the cerebellum you can stand upright, keep your balance, and move around

16. BRAIN STEM Sits beneath the cerebrum and in front of the cerebellum
Contains the hypothalamus and _____________gland
Connects rest of the brain to the ____________ cord
In charge of all the functions of your body –___________air, ________-food, and circulating blood
Controls __________muscles – heart and stomach

17. Pituitary Gland Controls__________ About the size of a pea
Produce and release hormones into your body

18. Hypothalamus
Your brain’s inner __________– knows what temperature your body should be
If your body is to hot, the hypothalamus tells it to sweat; if you are to cold, it makes you shiver
Hunger, thirst, appetite, and body weight
Sleep cycles

19. Meninges – membranes that cover the brain and the spinal cord for protection Pons – part of the brainstem that joins the hemispheres of the _______________ and connects the cerebrum with the cerebellum. Located just above the medulla oblongata Medulla – controls___________, breathing, digestions, and vital organs Vertebrae – protects the ________________ cord Cerebral spinal Fluid – watery cushion that the ________ floats in

20. Spinal Cord
Column of nerve tissue about 18 inches long and about as thick as your ______________ finger
The cord is protected by ___________ (bones that make up the spine) and protected by fluid that surrounds it –___________fluid
Relays messages to and from the brain and body

21. NEURONS

22. La
Label the diagram
Cerebellum, spinal cord, occipital, pons, medulla oblongata, frontal, parietal, corpus callosum, pituitary, temporal

23. Name the part of the brain (cerebrum, cerebellum, or medulla) responsible for coordinating or controlling each activity or condition listed below: Tasting a hamburger: ___________________ Artistic ability: ________________________ Kicking a soccer ball: ____________________ Rate of breathing: _____________________ Tying your shoes: ______________________

24. She Brains vs He Brains Read article and compare and contrast the female brain to the male brain

25. Adolescent Brain Development http://www. youtube. com/watch

26. Problems with the Nervous System
Spinal Cord Injuries
Paralysis
Nerve inflammation – “pinched nerve”
Diseases

27. Each group will be given an article to read
Each group will be given an article to read. You will then teach the class about what you read. Make sure to answer the following questions: 1. What is the disease? _____________________________________________________ 2. How does the disease affect your nervous system and/or how does someone get the disease? _____________________________________________________ 3. What are the signs and symptoms? _____________________________________________________ 4. How is the disease treated? _____________________________________________________ 5. Can it be prevented? If not, what can you do to lesson symptoms?