1. How to care for your brain Have plenty of sleep (at least 8 hours). Feed your brain healthy foods. Drink 8 glasses of water a day. Protect your head with the correct safety gear.

2. Make a model: Brain 1. Brain stem (the innermost part of the brain): Make a short sausage with a small bulge in front. 2. Cerebellum (There are two joined together in the brain. We will show them cut open): Make a sphere with two thin sausages opposite each other. 3. Make a worm shape then curve it around the top part of the brain stem. 4. Make a rainbow shape and curve it around the top of the hippocampus.

3. 5.Roll up a ball shape and put it inside the hippocampus. Ensure there are no gaps left. 6.Cerebrum: This piece is difficult to make. Roll a sausage (not too thick!) and layer it around the outside of the corpus collosum. Ensure that the outside shape looks right. 7.Make an amygdala by moulding an eye shape. Put it in front of the brain stem, below the hippocampus.

4. SIX Quick Questions 1.What part of the brain is central to LONG TERM MEMORY? 2.What part of the cerebrum is involved in vision? 3.What part of a neuron receives messages? 4.What part of a neuron transmits messages? 5.What is the part of the brain is called “GREY MATTER”? 6.Write the words that go with the acronym SHAC & CFC.

5. Did You Know? The brain is mostly made up of (70% - 80%), fat (10%) and protein (8%). Dehydration (drying out) is a common problem linked to poor learning. The brain needs several of water every day for best learning.

6. Did You Know? The brain is mostly made up of WATER (70% - 80%), fat (10%) and protein (8%). Dehydration (drying out) is a common problem linked to poor learning. The brain needs several GLASSES of water every day for best learning.

7. Did You Know? The brain does much of its remembering during our. Lack of sleep can cause major learning problems.

8. Did You Know? The brain does much of its remembering during our SLEEP. Lack of sleep can cause major learning problems.

9. Did You Know? Neurons are so that more than 60,000 of them would fit onto the full stop at the end of this sentence. Neurons need fresh oxygen to live. More oxygen gets into the brain when we

10. Neurons are so TINY that more than 60,000 of them would fit onto the full stop at the end of this sentence. Neurons need fresh oxygen to live. More oxygen gets into the brain when we EXERCISE. Did You Know?

11. The neurons in our brain are connected by more than 1 million of nerve fibres!

12. The neurons in our brain are connected by more than 1 million KILOMETERS of nerve fibres! Did You Know?

13. You know how electrical heaters usually use up lots of electricity. The brain is like this. It weighs only 2% of an adult’s total body weight, yet it uses 20% of the body’s energy. It also uses 20% of the body’s intake. Did You Know?

14. You know how electrical heaters usually use up lots of electricity. The brain is like this. It weighs only 2% of an adult’s total body weight, yet it uses 20% of the body’s energy. It also uses 20% of the body’s OXYGEN intake. Did You Know?

15. Your brain constantly checks itself and every single part of your body, including your 96,000Km of vessels! Much of what you eat ends up in your blood. Did You Know?

16. Your brain constantly checks itself and every single part of your body, including your 96,000Km of BLOOD vessels! Much of what you eat ends up in your blood.

17. During childhood, our brain uses more than double the amount of energy that an adult brain uses. Did You Know?

18. During childhood, our brain uses more than double the amount of GLUCOSE energy that an adult brain uses. Did You Know?