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

6. Experience is Job One

7. Brain Finding Imperative

8. Exercise

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

12. Sleep IS Important!!

13. 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

14. Average daily sleep needs: Adolescents – Teens 8.5-9.5 hours Newborn Babies 0-2 months: 10.5-18.5 hours Infants 2-12 months: 14-15 hours Toddler 12-18 months: 13-15 hours 18 months-3 years: 12-14 hours Preschoolers 3-5 years: 11-13 hours 1st - 8th Graders (5-12 years) 9-11 hours Mature : On average: 7-9 hours

15. 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

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

17. 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:

18. Brain Finding Imperative

19. ...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

21. Video

22. 15  13  11  9  7  5  Memory Space is Developmental Plus or Minus 2 Chunking as a Strategy

23. Video

28. Hooks for Information schema

29. Emotions

30. Attention Please

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

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

34. Please tell us some of the recommendations you have learned today. For more information, please contact: Dr. Ron Bonnstetter rjb@unl.edurjb@unl.edu Kirsten Smith ksmith@lps.orgksmith@lps.org Fred Goerisch goerishch@d261.k12.id.usgoerishch@d261.k12.id.us