This lobe is located in the back part of the brain and responsible for visual memory.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
100
When one part of the brain takes over another part of the brain because of injury or birth defect. For example a person who is born blind generally will have increased abilities in other areas such as hearing, smelling.
What is Plasticity?
100
Toddlers suffer from this condition caused by too many connections in the brain.
What is "Terrible Twos?"
100
One strategy allows students to teach each other the content of the lesson, another strategy involves is narrative and natural.
What are Reciprocal Teaching and Storytelling?
100
This subcortical structure is responsible for emotional memory. Reason we get scared when a dog barks at us through the fence.
What is the Amygdala?
200
This lobe is located in back part of the brain and is responsible for Spatial abilities, balance, etc.
What is the Parietal Lobe
200
Synapses firing intensively creates this..."Neurons that fire together wire together...Neurons that fire apart stay apart"
What is a thicker Neural Forest?
200
Comprised of Sensory, Working and Long Term Memory.
What is Information Processing Model
200
Similar strategies where students actually live the experience as it relates to the content.
What are simulations and role playing?
200
Fight or Flight happens here
What is the Brain Stem?
300
This part of the brain is responsible for the production of speech and is located near the top of the brain.
What is the Motor Cortex
300
This type of reading activity can cause a mini "fight or flight" and embarrassment for some students.
What is Reading Aloud?
300
Type of Memory that is just for storage and the other type that stores and actively processes.
What are Short Term and Working Memory?
300
This happens when you group items in a coherent pattern to create a single item.
What is Chunking?
300
When used to create a positive environment it is called motivation.
What is Positive Emotion?
400
This lobe is essential for hearing and language. Broca and Wernicke's area are located in this part of the brain.
What is the Temporal Lobe
400
Memory is in the synapse the more you fire the more you strengthen the connection.
What is LTP (Long Term Potentiation)?
400
"The mind can pay conscious attention to only one train of thought at a time."
What is The Cocktail Party Effect?
400
Ineffective way to remember information - Effective way to remember information.
What are Rote Rehearsal and Elaborative Rehearsal?
400
When a human experiences this they should seek counseling.
What is a traumatic (fight or flight experience)?
500
This lobe of the brain is the slowest to process but is capable of learning about 6,000 languages, is responsible for higher level thinking, can appreciate symphonies, art and can remember the past.
What is the Frontal Lobe
500
Two types of brain cells.
What are Neurons and Glial Cells?
500
You can remember 7 items more or less. Dependent on your age.
What is "M" Space?
500
Learning through pictures/visuals and musical patterns
What are graphic organizers and rhyme, rhythm and rap?
500
Assassination of JFK, New York 911, Mr. Pawek my principal, Spelling Bee that I won, Senior Play. Any memory that is always vivid.