1. Things we will address: Nutrition Sleep Vision Stress Exercise

2. Goals: Why should I care? Take care of you – take care of your students. Focus on raising kids –Effect: raise test scores Cutting edge information and strategies

3. Our Brain Needs… 1. Oxygen 2. Glucose 3. Water

4. Use of artificial neurotransmitters, i.e. caffeine, during the first twelve years may interfere with the nervous system’s ability to naturally make them for the rest of a person’s life!!

5. Brain Finding Imperative

6. ...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

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

9. Sleep IS Important!!

10. Sleep Findings Stryker 2001 Recommendations: Sleeping after learning grows TWICE as many neural dendrites as just learning the material

11. Average daily sleep needs: Preschoolers 3-5 years: 11-13 hours 1st - 8th Graders (5-12 years) 9-11 hours Adolescents &Teens 8.5-9.5 hours Adults On average: 7-9 hours

12. Sleep Patterns for the Adolescent Brain > 50% of high school students in REM sleep after 3 minutes, should take 90 minutes to get there Brown U. study

14. Video

16. From words to images

23. Stress

24. Exercise

25. Key Sources www.brainrules.net http://nerds.unl.edu/brain

26. 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 Cindy Larson-Miller clarson- miller@unl.educlarson- miller@unl.edu Sara Yendra syendra2@unl.edusyendra2@unl.edu