How to care for your brain

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How to care for your brain

• Have plenty of sleep (at least 8 hours).

• Feed your brain healthy foods.

• Drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Protect your head with the correct safety gear.
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Make a model Brain

• Brain stem (the innermost part of the brain)
  Make a short sausage with a small bulge in front.
• Cerebellum (There are two joined together in the
  brain. We will show them cut open) Make a
  sphere with two thin sausages opposite each
  other.
• Make a worm shape then curve it around the top
  part of the brain stem.
• Make a rainbow shape and curve it around the top
  of the hippocampus.

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• 5. Roll up a ball shape and put it inside the
  hippocampus. Ensure there are no gaps left.
• 6. Cerebrum This piece is difficult to make.
  Roll a sausage (not too thick!) and layer it
  around the outside of the corpus collosum.
  Ensure that the outside shape looks right.
• 7. Make an amygdala by moulding an eye shape. Put
  it in front of the brain stem, below the
  hippocampus.

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SIX Quick Questions

1. What part of the brain is central to LONG TERM
   MEMORY?
2. What part of the cerebrum is involved in vision?
3. What part of a neuron receives messages?
4. What part of a neuron transmits messages?
5. What is the part of the brain is called GREY
   MATTER?
6. Write the words that go with the acronym SHAC
   CFC.

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Did You Know?
The brain is mostly made up of (70
- 80), fat (10) and protein (8). Dehydration
(drying out) is a common problem linked to poor
learning. The brain needs several
of water every day for best learning.
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Did You Know?
The brain is mostly made up of WATER (70 - 80),
fat (10) and protein (8). Dehydration (drying
out) is a common problem linked to poor learning.
The brain needs several GLASSES of water every
day for best learning.
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Did You Know?
The brain does much of its remembering during our
. Lack of sleep can cause major
learning problems.
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Did You Know?
The brain does much of its remembering during our
SLEEP. Lack of sleep can cause major learning
problems.
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Did You Know?
Neurons are so that more than 60,000 of
them would fit onto the full stop at the end of
this sentence. Neurons need fresh oxygen to live.
More oxygen gets into the brain when we
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Did You Know?
Neurons are so TINY that more than 60,000 of them
would fit onto the full stop at the end of this
sentence. Neurons need fresh oxygen to live. More
oxygen gets into the brain when we EXERCISE.
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Did You Know?
The neurons in our brain are connected by more
than 1 million
of
nerve fibres!
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Did You Know?
The neurons in our brain are connected by more
than 1 million KILOMETERS of nerve fibres!
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Did You Know?
You know how electrical heaters usually use up
lots of electricity. The brain is like this. It
weighs only 2 of an adults total body weight,
yet it uses 20 of the bodys energy. It also
uses 20 of the bodys intake.
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Did You Know?
You know how electrical heaters usually use up
lots of electricity. The brain is like this. It
weighs only 2 of an adults total body weight,
yet it uses 20 of the bodys energy. It also
uses 20 of the bodys OXYGEN intake.
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Did You Know?
Your brain constantly checks itself and every
single part of your body, including your 96,000Km
of vessels! Much of what you eat
ends up in your blood.
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Did You Know?
Your brain constantly checks itself and every
single part of your body, including your 96,000Km
of BLOOD vessels! Much of what you eat ends up in
your blood.
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Did You Know?
During childhood, our brain uses more than double
the amount of energy that an
adult brain uses.
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Did You Know?
During childhood, our brain uses more than double
the amount of GLUCOSE energy that an adult brain
uses.