Answers should be in full and complete sentences.
 Scroll down to Brain Basics and click on Divisions of the Nervous System, use this site to answer the following questions
1) How much does the brain weigh?
2) About how many nerve cells are in the brain?
Click on the colored words BRAIN FACTS AND FIGURES and answer the following questions
3) What animal has the largest brain?
4) What animal has the smallest brain?
5) Does brain size have anything to do with intelligence?
Go back one page and scroll to the top to click on Brain Structures
6) Where is the cerebral cortex located?
7) What is a groove in the cortex called?
8) What is a bump in the cortex called?
9) What is one area of the brain that is responsible for memory and learning?
Label the parts of the brain pictured below:
 Scroll all the way to the top and click on the word Explore on the left hand side. Under the Brain Basics section find Our Divided Brain: Lobes of the Brain
18) What are the four major lobes of the brain?
Find out about Phineas Gage by clicking on "more about poor Mr. Gage" and then clicking on Phineas Gage's Story.
19) What happened to Phineas Gage?
Scroll all the way to the top and click on the word Explore on the left hand side. Under the Brain Basics section find 1 Brain or 2: Split Brain Experiments
20) Name two functions that are dominant on the left brain side of the brain.
21) Name two functions that are dominant on the right side of the brain.
22) What structures connect the right and left cerebral hemishperes?
23) What side of the brain controls language in most people?
24) List 5 famous left handed people.
Scroll all the way to the top and click on the word Explore on the left hand side. Under the Brain Basics section find The Brain during Sleep
25) What instrument is used to measure brain activity?
26) About how much of your life do you spend asleep?
27) What does REM stand for?
Go back one page and under the Brain Basics section find Brain Fitness- Your Guide to Good Health
28) List three tips on this page for good health.
Go back one page and under the Higher Functions section find The Brain vs. The Computer
29) Which sends signals faster, a brain or a computer?
When you are done with all of the questions try some of these Brain Games
>>When Playing COLORS,COLORS,COLORS say the color of the word, do not read the word. Time yourself and be honest. Afterwards read about what is happening in the Stroop test.
>> Try the Brain Hieroglyphics, be warned you must know brain vocabulary!!
>>Once you complete the online jigsaw puzzles you can send them to a friend.
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