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Labeling the brain
Brain facts
True or False
Brain development
Function of brain
100

Blue part

Frontal lobe

100

By the time kids are six, their brains are already about what percentage of adult size

90-95%

100

How teenagers spend their time is crucial to brain development.

True

100

Why is sleep important especially for a teen?

They still need plenty of sleep for their overall health and development, including their brain development.

100

Brain Stem deals with:

  • ______
  • Arousal and consciousness
  • Attention and concentration
  • Heart rate
  • Sleep and wake cycle

Breathing

200

Yellow part

Temporal lobe

200

Brain change depends on age, experience and hormonal changes in _____. 

puberty

200

Parents and guardians should never help child develop decision making

False- Parents/guardians and child could work through a process that involves defining problems, listing options, and considering outcomes that everyone is happy with. Role-modelling these skills is important too.

200

**DAILY DOUBLE**

What are 3 tips to helping children sleep

  • Ensure child has a comfortable, quiet sleep environment.
  • Encourage ‘winding down’ before bed, away from screens including phones.
  • Encourage child to go to bed and wake up at regular times each day.
  • Encourage child to get 8-10 hours of sleep each night.
200

The frontal lobe functions with attention and _____.

Concentration

300

Green part

Occipital lobe

300

**DAILY DOUBLE**

In teen's brains, the main change is that unused connections in the thinking and processing part of your child’s brain (called the grey matter) are _____ away

Pruned

300

The left part of the brain is the more "creative side"

False

300

What can parents do to help build healthy brain for their child? (3 things)

  • encouraging positive behavior
  • promoting good thinking skills
  • helping your child get plenty of sleep.
300

Parietal Lobe deals with:

  • Sense of touch
  • Spatial perception
  • ______ of size, shapes, and colors
  • Visual perception

Differentiation (identification)

400

Purple part

Parietal lobe

400

This pruning process begins in the _____ of the brain.

back

400

Parents and guardians should never encourage empathy.

False- Talk about feelings – parent's/guardian's and child’s and other people’s. Highlight the fact that other people have different perspectives and circumstances. Reinforce that many people can be affected by one action.

400

When a child's brain is developing they might: (3 things)

  • choose high-risk activities or risky behavior
  • express more and stronger emotions
  • make impulsive decisions.
400

Cerebellum Lobe deals with:

  • ______
  • Skilled motor activity
  • Coordination

Balance

500

Bottom stick looking part

Brain stem

500

Injuries of the Right Side of the Brain can cause (7 things, give 3)


  • Visual-spatial impairment
  • Visual memory deficits
  • Left neglect (inattention to the left side of the body)
  • Decreased awareness of deficits
  • Altered creativity and music perception
  • Loss of “the big picture” type of thinking
  • Decreased control over left-sided body movements
500

The prefrontal cortex is the decision-making part of the brain, responsible for your child’s ability to plan and think about the consequences of actions, solve problems and control impulses.

True

500

Brain growth and development during these years means that a child will start to: (5 things, need 3)

  • think more logically
  • think about things more abstractly and understand that issues aren’t always simple
  • pick up more on other people’s emotional cues
  • solve complex problems in a logical way, and see problems from different perspectives
  • get a better perspective on the future.
500

Occipital Lobe deals with

Vision