8th Grade Science

this is your brain on drugs

5/11/2014

GQ Page 102
1. What is a neuron?
2. What part of the neuron is responsible for connecting and communicating with another neuron?
3. What is an action potential?

Step 1
Review & grade your Doritos and Hela Cells packet from Science Worlds.
Step 2
Finish your Thinking Caps. Show them to me for a grade. Make sure you have met all the requirements of the rubric.
Step 3
Grab a vocab sheet from the front table and use your notes to complete. This will serve as your study guide for your test that is coming up.
Step 4
login to CITS to take your test. Password is MCKINNEY.

Brain on Drugs color coding

Step 4
On the back of the sheet is a diagram of a normal brain and then the brain of a cocaine addict. Use the website above to color code and investigate the affects of drugs on the brain.

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Neurons

5/1/2014

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GQ Page 100.....
1. What parts of the body is make up the Central Nervous System?
2. What parts of the body make up the Peripheral Nervous System?
3. What lobe of the brain is known as the "little brain" and is the most primitive part? What does primitive mean? What functions does it control?
4. If you could only keep one lobe of the brain, which would it be and why?

Step 1
You are going to make a model of the lobes of the brain by creating your very own Thinking Cap. Follow the directions by clicking on the link below.

Thinking Cap Creations

Step 2
While your thinking cap is drying you will need conduct the interactive game to make a Mad, Mad, Neuron!

Make a Mad, Mad Neuron

Step 3
Watch the video, Crossing the Divide and answer the questions that go with it. You may also want to explore the Mouse on Drugs Video if you have time.

Crossing the Divide video

Questions: Crossing the Divide

Step 4
Pick up a copy of Neurotransmission. Read the article Neurons Communicate by Neurotransmission then watch the video called Neurotransmission. Fill out the 6 stepped diagram by adding your own description for each of the steps. Paste onto Page 101.

Neurotransmission Video

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Mapping the Brain

4/27/2014

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Step 1
Grab a copy of the Brain and Nerve Cell Diagram from the front of the room and the table paper called The Brain. Use the picture of the brain at the top of this blog to label the parts of the brain and color code your own.
Step 2
Read the table paper The Brain and label the functions of each part of the brain. Don't forget to read the Fast Facts. Pick 3 that you think are the most surprising and write them down.

Brain & Nerve Cell Diagram

Step 3
Pick up and complete the Nervous System packet. The second page refers to Neurons. Watch the Videos called How Neurons Work and Anatomy of a Neuron. Use this packet and the videos to color code and label the nerve cell diagram, include the functions of each structure. Include in your labels: Nucleus, cell body, dendrites, axon, schwaan cells, nodes of ranier, axon terminal. Paste onto page 99.

How Neurons Work

Anatomy of a Neuron

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The Human Brain

4/24/2014

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Are you right or left brained? Answer the questions on the picture to find out.

Step 1: Make a new tab and label it Information Processing in your notebooks.
Step 2: Determine if you are right brained or left brained. Find 5 characteristics that describe you best from that side of the brain. Write this down and discuss with your elbow partner.

hand dominance online test

Reaction Time Test

Step 3: Grab a table paper. Read the Manhattan Project of the MInd and then answer the questions on a seperate sheet of paper. Turn into the worms.
Step 4: Find a computer or device and take the hand dominance tests and then the reaction time tests.

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