Monday October 6, 2025 for Green and Tuesday October 6, 2025 for Gold

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!

Circle: One thing you did outside this weekend? 

Unit 1: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Nature/Nurture Review

Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.

Module 9 slide show

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

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheet

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

What do split brains reveal about the functions of our two brain hemispheres?

Homework: Study for QUIZ

Building a neuron model:  Due October 28th.  Quarter ends the 31st.

Activity: True/False

Activity: Reaction Time-explain the sequence and how the sensory, motor neurons and interneurons work.

Activity: Cross hands and confuse brain

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological.  What implications can you draw about the brain and its structure from the following three examples:  In groups of three what are some of the implications of the following information?

Shawn Achor Video

Harvard Study

NPR Story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444451363/childhood-stress-may-prime-pump-for-chronic-disease-later

ACES Video

Your ACE's score: Does it surprise you?

Image of Neuron