Mindfulness
While it used to be believed that this part of your body cannot generate new cells, new research shows that doing meditation can add more cells to this part of your body.
What is the brain?
Followup question: How do you think the impacts of meditation affect you at school?
These mammals are the only mammals that delay sleep when tired.
What are humans?
Followup question: What is one thing you can do to try to not delay your sleep at night? (hint: what is something that causes you to delay your sleep?)
This is how many muscles you use to take one step forward when walking.
What is 200?
These two parts of the body are the most contaminated with germs.
What are fingertips and nails?
Followup question: How should this fact affect the way you wash your hands?
Using mindfulness can be considered this, which helps us to stay in the green zone.
What is a tool?
On average, the brain experiences this number of events each day.
What is 70,000?
This practice can help lessen insomnia when used regularly.
What is mindfulness meditation?
This is the recommended length of time for physical fitness each day for students ages 6-17 years old.
What is 60 minutes?
Followup question: What do you think counts as exercise?
True or false: males have more sweat glands than females.
False-females have more, but male's are more active (produce more sweat) than female's glands.
True or False: repeatedly forgetting to brush our teeth and having bad breath may result in others' thoughts and feelings changing about us.
What is true?
Followup question: What are things you can do to keep your breath fresh during the school day?
Of the 126 pieces of information that our brain can process at one time, this is the most abundant type of information
What in sensory information?
Followup question: What are some pieces of sensory information your brain may be processing right now?
More than 50% of Americans lose sleep due to this.
What is stress/anxiety?
Followup question: What is one strategy you could try or have tried to lower stress before bed?
Exercising releases this neurotransmitter, which improves our mood.
What is serotonin?
Toothbrushing became part of everyday routine after this world event.
What is WWII? (It was invented in China in 1498 but was not routine until soldiers were forced to brush their teeth during active duty)
True or false: using calming or alerting strategies when your body needs them keeps others feeling comfortable and safe.
What is true?
Followup question: Why might a green zone body make your peers feel safe?
After 4 days of practicing mindfulness, this sensation can be cut in half.
What is pain?
This is the length of the perfect nap, according to NASA.
What is 26 minutes?
The average person walks this many steps per day. If you do this everyday, you will have walked ~110,000 miles by the time you are 80 years old!
What is 7,500?
True or false: antibacterial soap washes away more bacteria than regular soap.
False-they wash away the same number of bacteria.
Followup question: What is the professionally recommended time you should be washing your hands for?
Your friend is falling asleep at their desk and can't keep his eye's open. You should give them a suggestion to use this type of strategy.
What are alerting/wake-up strategies?
Followup question: What are 2 examples of alerting strategies?
After practicing mindfulness or meditation, this part of your brain that is responsible for stress shrinks temporarily
What the is AMYGDALA?
Sleeping less than 7 hours per night causes this important brain function to be less efficient.
What is memory?
Exercising changes the makeup of these types of cells. They move faster in the body and detect and fight disease more efficiently.
What are white blood cells/antibodies?
Followup question: what emotion/feeling can cause your white blood cells to work less efficiently (move slower, work slower)?
Bacteria can multiply in as little as 20 minutes. in 24 hours, a single bacterium can multiply into this many bacteria.
What is 8 million cells?
Your friend is supposed to be sitting at his desk for independent work, but is jumping by his desk, and is having trouble focusing. You could suggest this type of strategy to your friend.
What are calming strategies?
Followup question: What are 2 examples of calming strategies?