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Neuroscience – Background Brain Work

January 12, 2018 by admin

12/01/17

Today the children have been doing some more work on the brain in their role as young neuro-scientists! They have been learning which part of the brain makes you think, which part makes you move and which part makes you feel happy or sad. As part of this work they have been making and labelling some fantastic collages of the various parts of the brain.

Filed Under: Children's Work - Growth Mindset Tagged With: Growth mindset, neuroscience, thinking skills

Neuroscience continued

November 17, 2017 by admin

17/11/17

Today the children continued with their important work on neuroscience! They had a re-cap of how neurons in the brain work. We then discussed what we can do to help build neural pathways in our brain. The children realised the value of perseverance, independent learning and using classroom displays to help them to solve problems.

Following this work, some children played the game “refraction” where points are awarded for perseverance and trying new strategies to solve problems. Other children made pictures and collages of neurons.

Filed Under: Children's Work - Growth Mindset Tagged With: Growth mindset, neuroscience, perseverance, thinking skills

Neuroscience

November 10, 2017 by admin

10/11/17

Today the children participated in a lesson about the brain. They were very excited to hear that they were going to be neuroscientists! They learnt that the brain contains more than a hundred billion neurons. These neurons make new connections and pathways as we learn new skills. To encourage our brain to make new neural pathways we need to persevere, work hard and practise. In teams the children then made their own neural pathways using paper chains. This task encouraged team work and perseverance. As you can see the children had lots of fun.

Filed Under: Children's Work - Growth Mindset Tagged With: Growth mindset, neuroscience, thinking skills

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