The document discusses how the brain learns and grows. It explains that the brain seeks information and patterns, is social through speaking, reading, listening and explaining, and is emotional such that strong emotions aid in memory storage. It also notes the brain needs nourishment, oxygen, water and safety to learn effectively. Specific strategies are provided, including collecting, organizing and rehearsing information according to the CORE method and revisiting new learning multiple times over a period of a week to commit it to long-term memory.

1. The CORE Learning System: CollectOrganizeRehearseEvaluate

2. Brain Science & Learning How to Grow Your Brain

3. Are our brains limited?

4. Or can our brains grow...

5. Interesting Brain Facts How much does it weigh? 3 pounds. How big is it? Cerebral cortex (wrinkled brain wrap) is as big as the front page news. What does it feel like? Like soft butter.

6. Brain Parts PARIETAL LOBE CEREBRAL CORTEX FRONTAL LOBE OCCIPITAL LOBE AMYGDALA TEMPORAL LOBE

7. Brain Functions PARIETAL LOBE Physical sensations, movement CEREBRAL CORTEX Wrinkly outer-covering - where neural connections happen FRONTAL LOBE Rational thought, impulse control, planning OCCIPITAL LOBE Visual processing AMYGDALA Located deep inside brain – fight, flight, or freeze TEMPORAL LOBE Hearing, memories

8. 5 Facts for Learning The The brain seeks and processes INFORMATION The The brain is SOCIAL The brain is EMOTIONAL The brain needs NOURISHMENT The The brain needs SAFETY

9. The Brain seeks and processes INFORMATION The brain seeks PATTERNS The brain seeks NOVELTY Too much predictability = BOREDOM Too much novelty = STRESS Quick Write: What does this mean for your learning?

10. The Brain is SOCIAL Quick Write: What does this mean for your learning? SPEAKING READING LISTENING EXPLAING TO A PARTNER

11. The Brain is EMOTIONAL Which do you remember more clearly: your first book report or your first kiss? When strong emotions are attached to new information, the brain more easily stores it into memory. Quick Write: What does this mean for your learning?

12. The Brain needs Nourishment The brain makes up 2% of your body’s mass, yet requires 20% of it’s nourishment. Oxygen is needed (through movement) or the brainswitches into power-save mode. The brain is 80% water. Quick Write: What does this mean for your learning?

13. The Brain needs SAFETY When the Amygdala fires up, the lobes power down, or... When you are in fight, flight, or freeze mode, learning is impared. Quick Write: What does this mean for your learning?

14. Neuron Parts New dendrites GROW and CONNECT as you learn...

15. The Brain GROWS and SHRINKS 20 minutes after you learn something, if you don’t think about it again, you begin to loose those newly formed dendrites. The 10-24-7 rule says that if you study a piece of new information 10 minutes after you first learn it, then again 24 hours later, then again 7 days later, you will commit it to long term memory. Quick Write: What does this mean for your learning?

16. What will you USE? Final Quick Write: What strategies or information from this lesson will you use to learn more effectively?

17. Journal Prompt Homework: Explore “Brain Rules” www.brainrules.net