Parts of the Brain
This part of the brain influences planning, decision making, and emotions.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Music can change how we feel.
What is True?
What is one thing you can do when you're upset?
Deep breathing, grounding, listening to music, taking a break, talking to someone, etc. (This can vary)
The hippocampus helps with ________.
Memory
Don't Stop Believing
This part of the brain influences hearing, memory, and language.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
The brain only has one part and it works by itself.
What is False?
What was the name of the calm place we drew?
What is a Safe Space/Place?
The cerebellum helps with balance and ________.
Coordination (or movement).
"O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming..."
The Star Spangled Banner
This part of the brain influences emotions, reward, and motivation. This system can promote relaxation and healing.
What is the Limbic System?
The temporal lobe helps us hear sounds and music.
What is True?
Name one activity we did in group that could help reduce stress.
Rain sticks, drawing, listening to music, dancing, safe place activity, etc.
The temporal lobe helps us hear ________.
Music or sounds.
"It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurking in the dark"
Thriller
This part of the brain influences memory formation and how we interpret different events that happen. Music helps encode, store, and retrieve these memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
Optical illusions show that our brains can sometimes misinterpret what we see.
What is true?
Complete the sentence: "Pause before you _______."
React
The prefrontal cortex helps us make ________.
Decisions or choices.
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze
Take Me Home, Country Roads
This part of the brain influences movement and coordination.
What is the motor cortex?
Everyone feels exactly the same emotion when they hear a song.
What is False?
What is an Amygdala Hijack?
When emotions take over before we can think things through.
Before reacting with big emotions, it's helpful to ________.
Pause, breathe, think, or use a coping skill.
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May
My Girl