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THE BRAIN AND OUR SENSES

Your brain controls everything you do. It communicates with your body, keeps your body functioning, and helps you think. It helps you do things you think about and also does things you DON'T think about. How does it communicate and keep your body working so smoothly?

Check out these resources and find out! Check out your Brain at Your Brain and Nervous System, your Nervous System at Your Gross & Cool Body - Nervous System,, MEDtropolis - Virtual Body: The Human Brain, and Brain Facts and Figures

1. Read page 346 -351 in your Science Book.

2. Fill in the Brain Activity page then label the Brain Anatomy Diagram.

3. Each part of the brain is responsible for specific actions. What are they? Put a check in the correct column of the How Your Brain Works chart.

• Making plans for your birthday party
• Planning what you are going to eat
• Talking on the telephone
• Feeling cold during recess
• Remembering your trip to Disneyland
• Figuring out how to do multiplication
• Laughing at a movie
• Playing 4 Square
• Feeling the soft fur on a puppy
• Finding a light switch in the dark
• Listening to music
• Watching a movie
• Feeling pain when you fall

4. What is your brain made of? How much does it weigh? How does your brain communicate with your body?

5. What is your nervous system? What are nerves and what do they do? How do nerves pass along messages?To find out how the brain controls everything, go to Neuroscience for Kids: Lobes of the Brain.

BONUS: Brain Games (Brains Rule) More Brain Games

BONUS: The Secret Life of the Brain (PBS Special Series)

BONUS: Take a short review quiz about the lobes of the brain.

 Other good links: The Human Brain