Thursday(GREEN) October 30, 2025
Circle: Are you trick-o-treating tomorrow and what are you going as?
Learning Targets:
1.Understand how different parts of the brain work
2. Understand what happens when different parts of the brain are damaged
3. Understand how the brain can rewire itself.
What could happen when you injure your brain?
What happens when you injure your brain?
Activity:
2. Worksheet
3. Presenting our findings
Wednesday(GREEN) November 29, 2025
Circle: What is you favorite kind of Halloween candy?
Learning Targets:
1.Understand how different parts of the brain work
2. Understand what happens when different parts of the brain are damaged
3. Understand how the brain can rewire itself.
What could happen when you injure your brain?
What happens when you injure your brain?
Tuesday-Gold October 24th, 2025
Unit 1: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological
Nature/Nurture Review
Circle: Tattoo of your name across your neck on one of your front teeth is gold with diamonds in the shape of the letter of your last name.
Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.
Learning Targets: I can explain/understand
Thursday GREEN October 9th, 2025
Circle: Do you think you are a good judge of character?
Activity: Picture
Who do you think is the kindest person? “Why did you pick that particular person? What experiences or biases shaped your perception?”
Which person would you go to honest advice? “How quickly did you decide? What influenced that judgment?”
If you were going to ask one of them for directions to a place you were looking for who would you ask? Why that particular person? What do you think influenced you?
2 Minute Neuroscience: The Neuron
Neuron Quiz
Monday October 6, 2025 for Green and Tuesday October 6, 2025 for Gold
New Seating Chart and Activity
New Seating Chart and Activity. You will be designing, and building and flying a paper airplane with you new group. 1. You will first do introductions and explain if you are an introvert or an extrovert. 2. You will come up with a plan to make sure that everyone is included in the building and designing of the plane. 3. You will be asked how you made sure that everyone had a say in how the plane was designed and built and how the sensory, motor neurons and interneurons interact to throw the paper airplane. Your plane will be judged on distance with the 1st, 2nd and 3 place are getting a prize!
Unit 1: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological
Nature/Nurture Review
Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.
Mind-body connection: Using example from page 79 of the Chinese transplant surgeon how would you answer the following questions? 1. Would Wang still be Wang? 2. After recovering whose home should he return to? 3. If he had specialized skills like music, would Wang retain that skill or is it dependent on the new body's muscle memory? 4. If Wang was to later father a child, whom should the birth certificate list as the father?
Learning Targets: I can explain/understand
