The Brain Unit Part 3

SAGE: The Brain Unit (Printable)

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Week 9

Essential Question(s):

Which parts of the brain are responsible for the different functions of the body?

Topics:		Learning Style:
		Personality
		Creativity
		Objectivies:
		What is your learning style?
		What factors help to determine your personality?
		How creative are you?
		Procedures:
		Learning Style
		1.    A topic we tend to not spend enough time on with students is LEARNING. As students gain better metacognitive skills
		about their own learning, they become better learners. Introduce 3 most common modalities for learning and guide
		students to help determine their learning style:
		Visual:        Receiving the information best through visual stimulation (reading, pictures, graphs, etc.)
		Kinesthetic:   Receiving information best via touch and hands-on activities (craft projects, Cuisenaire rods or other
		math manipulatives, science experiments, etc.)
		Auditory:     Receiving information best through the ears (being read to aloud, listening to songs, audio books, etc.)
		2.    What is Your Learning Style?
		3.
		Levels of Cognitive Control
		4.    A chart to help determine learning styles
		5.    An online learning style inventory can be found here
		6.    Women may have better verbal memory and social cognition, whereas men may have better motor and spatial skills.
		Women have been found to use more white matter, which connects processing centers, while men use more grey matter.
		Personality
		1.     A "fun" (not scientifically based) introduction that you might use for personality is "How Do You Eat Your Oreo?"
		a.   If you nibble on your cookie, you are an introvert and loved by management because you are a hard worker that
		gets stuff done!
		b.   If you twist your cookie, you are a curious one and always like to learn!
		c.   If you dunk your cookie, you are the life of the party. Everyone loves you because you have a fun personality!
		d.   If you just eat your cookie the traditional way, you are an extrovert and a leader.
		2.     This website discusses how psychologist use inkblots to determine personality.
		3.     Link to investigate personality with The True Colors Test
		Making Decisions
		1.     Myers-Briggs Personality Test
		2.     Draw a "Myers" Pig
		3.     Decisions! Decisions!
		Creativity
		1.     SCAMPER is a creative thinking checklist. Consider having your students use SCAMPER to create something new.
Extras:

1.  How the brain reads The angular and supramarginal gyrus serve as a "reading integrator" a             conductor of sorts, linking the different parts of the brain together to execute the           action of reading.       2.  Scientists learned that there are four brain regions that are related to reading:             the visual cortex that helps us perceive letters and words             the phonological cortex that maps the sounds to letters             the semantic cortex that stores word meanings, and             the syntactic cortex, that helps us understand the rules and structure of sentences             Each part of the brain works in concert by forming efficient and fast neural pathways as we read.