Nervous System Basics

Your Brain, Your Notebook, and Your Learning Style(s)

Part 1: Get Ready to Take Notes

1. Set up page 1 in your notebook for Cornell Notes, titled How Your Brain Works.

2. In the margin, write these questions:

• • What is the Nervous System?

  • How do neurons communicate?

  • Describe the 4 major regions of the brain.

  • Describe functions of each lobe in the cerebrum.

  • Explain why the frontal lobe is different in teens.

3.Click the link to watch this quick video about how neurons communicate. Draw and label the parts of a neuron. Add color.

5. After you complete the Cornell Notes on the Nervous System Basics: How Your Brain Works, please use the link to Brain Basics to color code and summarize functions in the lobes of your brain.

Part 2: What's My Style?:

1. Take a fun quiz to determine your strongest learning style(s). We all use our strengths when trying to solve problems. What's yours? Find out how to study, how to learn best, and how you can help others on your team or group!

What's my learning strength?

2. When you get the results, be sure to dig deeper and get some (2-3) ideas about how to learn new information.

3. Apply "What's My Style?"On the next even numbered page in your notebook, write two strategies for studying that suit your learning style.

Part 3: Reflect in your notebook.

1. How does it help you to be more compassionate with your classmates when you know what their learning style is? For example, consider the characteristics of some one who is verbal. They will often repeat things aloud to check that they understand. How does this affect the class? How can you be helpful if this person is your partner?

2. How well did you meet the Learning Objectives?

Learning Objectives:

• to identify the functions associated with major regions of the human brain

• to identify your learning styles strengths and two (2) strategies that are best suited to you to help you learn

• to understand the relationship between your brain structure and the structure of your IA Notebook

If you finish early, you can check out some videos on You Tube ...

How much of your brain do you actually use?

YouTube Videos: Neurons and How They Work and How Neurons Communicate