Mapping the Road Ahead Section Hike 1 Meet

Mapping the Road Ahead Section Hike 1

Meet Ms. Kay • 6 th Year teaching • Campus Tiger • I love playing outdoors, eating Vietnamese food, doing crafts, and basketball! • I have a cat & a dog. • I am a vegetarian.

Science & Social Studies Class • • Structure + Classroom Expectations Assignments/ Homefun/ Quizzes Blog ICYMI Classroom Tour/ Materials Exploration Journals Communication

Journals • • What is a journal? Keeping Up Storage Quizzes

Journal Expectations 1. Label and date everything. Make it organized. 2. Must be weekly maintained. 3. Keep them in the classroom. 4. Record your thoughts the way your brain wants them. 5. Only write in pencil or colored pencil.

What Is A Scientist? • Using cardstock and colored pencils or markers, draw: a scientist doing science Time Allotted: 20 minutes *These will be published.

Reflection • What do many of the pictures have in common? • What is missing from our drawings? • Did anything surprise you? • Did anything stand out to you?

A scientist is someone who…

A scientist is someone who…

What are the guidelines for writing in your journal?

Name three things you can find on the 4 th grade blog.

What is your homeroom’s support schedule?

Meet Your Brain •

The Principle of 10 -24 -7 To move information from short term memory long term memory: n “Use it or lose it” Review: 10 minutes later 24 hours later 7 days later

Neurons • Your brain sends messages through neurons • There are 100 billion in your brain!

Meet Your Brain • Brain Hemispheres: • Right Hemisphere + Left Hemisphere • Connected by the corpus collosum (helps the two sides “talk”!) • https: //youtu. be/cg. LYk. V 689 s 4

Right Hemisphere • Controls the LEFT side of your body • Creativity + Arts

Left Hemisphere • Controls the RIGHT side of your body • Logic + Math

Cerebellum • Performs everyday movements you choose to do (ex: walking + writing) • Helps us stay balanced

Brain Stem

Brain Stem • Thalamus: Senses, being awake + asleep, movement • Optic Nerve: Connects info to your eye • Midbrain: Movement, vision, & hearing • Pons: Posture & movement • Medulla Oblongata: Breathing, swallowing, and heart rate • Spinal Cord: Central Nervous System- controls reflexes

Why is your cortex wrinkley? • 2 Sheets of paper – Leave one piece of paper flat. Crumple the other and open it up, but don’t flatten it. Lay it on top of the other piece of paper.

What do you notice about the differences in the 2 pieces of paper?

What do you notice about the differences in the 2 pieces of paper? • The wrinkles and bumps on the paper make it take up less space. It’s the same with your cortex. The wrinkles allow a larger area to fit in the limited space between your ears.

What do you notice about the differences in the 2 pieces of paper? • The wrinkles and bumps on the paper make it take up less space. It’s the same with your cortex. The wrinkles allow a larger area to fit in the limited space between your ears.

3 -2 -1 Closeout • 3: List 3 parts of the brain • 2: List 2 functions of the brain stem • 1: List 1 reason why we need to learn about the brain