IPC – Science

Brainwave
By Mr Emerson Cabrera
 Exit Entry
Point Point

3R’s
Knowledge
• Reflect Harvest
• Research
• Record
Explaining
the Theme
 Objectives
• Be able to identify when a
strategy to reduce stress and
improve wellbeing is needed
and act accordingly
• Be able to select the most
effective metacognitive
strategies to improve their own
learning
 “Making meaning”
Characteristics of
understanding:
“Be able to”
Understanding is personal, and
Characteristics of skills: connections must be made
“Knowing that” Skills are learnt in a practical actively by the learner in order
way, they can be new or to make meaning.
Characteristics of knowledge:
consolidated. We define Multiple opportunities should be
Knowledge can be new or
developmental stages of offered for learners to develop
consolidated. Knowledge is
acquiringskills as ‘Beginning, and demonstrate their
continually expanding and can
Developing and Mastering’. understanding.
change as new discoveries
are made. Understanding includes
components of knowledge,
skills and experience.
Entry Point
Development
Are you good at something? What are you good at?
Show the class! Explain to your class how to do that thing you are
good at!
Establish the steps to do what you know, a or some goals at the
end of you teaching.

For Example:
Knowledge Harvest
The Brain
 Some of us are “left-brained” and
some are “right-brained”, and this
helps explains differences in how we
learn.

We only use 10% of our brain.

Do you think
these
statements
are true? Every child learns in a particular way –
Are they true
visual, auditory or kinaesthetic.
of false?
 • The brain has finish developing by the
time children reach their teenage years
What do you think
(puberty).-
about these
• Learning is due to the addition of new
statements?
cells to the brain.
Are they true or
• When we sleep, our brain stops working.
false?
• Everyone can multitask.
• Playing brain games makes you smarter.
Let’s unmask the truth!
 True or False
Left Brain vs Right Brain
Some of us are ‘left-brained’ and some
are ‘right-brained,’ and this helps
explain differences in how we learn.
The left and right hemispheres of the
brain work together. There is no
evidence that people’s learning differs
in important ways based on one
hemisphere being more dominant than
the other.
True or False
10% of the brain only?
 True or False
Every child learns in a particular way- visual, auditory or
kinaesthetic.

Many individuals will state preferences for the way in which

they want to learn, but there is no evidence that matching a

teaching technique to a preferred style will improve learning,

despite this hypothesis being tested multiple times. Appealing

to multiple learning styles can be useful because cross-

connections are created when people perform tasks in a

manner different from their “preferred” cognitive style. It’s the

variety of brain regions recruited through multiple neural

pathways that makes learning most effective for all learners.

True or False
The brain has finished developing by the time
children reach their teenage years (puberty).

Brain development continues well into

adolescence and adulthood, especially
the development of the prefrontal
lobes, which are critical for executive
reasoning and decision-making.
True or False
Learning is due to the addition of new cells to the brain.

Learning arises from changes in the connections between

brain cells.
True or False
When we sleep, our brain shuts down.

Patterns of brain activity shift when we go to sleep, but the brain is active 24 hours a day,
whether we are sleeping or awake.
 True or False
Everyone can multitask.

The brain can’t attend to two or more attention-rich stimuli simultaneously — simply
put, multitasking doesn’t work. A 2000 study by Naveh-Benjamin and colleagues
provides a deeper understanding of what this means for learning. The authors
discovered that there were significant differences between encoding and retrieval
activities involved in processing information created through multitasking. The
researchers demonstrated that encoding requires more attention than retrieval and
that divided attention during the encoding phase of learning significantly reduced
memory. Since encoding is the first of three memory stages (storage and retrieval
are the other two), the implication is that the quantity and quality of memory is
profoundly influenced by multitasking.
 True or False
Playing brain games makes you smarter.

Playing brain-training games can help improve your memory,

concentration or intelligence. This is usually evidenced by people
playing these games and getting better at them; however, the problem is
that there is little to no transfer of these skills when tested in different
contexts such as in the classroom.
MAKING CONNECTIONS

It is the study of the brain and the

nervous system and how it works.
Also, it is the that combines the science
of the brain and the impact that it has
on learning.
Neurons become interconnected through joining with other neurons.
Neurons connect to each other through synapses, sites where signals are
transmitted in the form of chemical messengers. Dendrites bring information
to the cell (neuron), axons transport information away from the cell. (they
do not need to remember the terminology and brain science but should
appreciate the importance of making connections).
Reading
 How do you think the
brain store your
memories?

There are 3 main parts of the brain that

deal with memories. Scientis have
examined brains, collecting data when
they are working to better understand
learning. So memories aren’t stored in
just one part of the brain. Different
types are stored across different
(interconnected) brain parts.
 How memory works
• For explicit memories – which are about events that
happened to you (episodic), as well as general facts and
information (semantic) – there are 3 important areas of the
brain: the hippocampus, the neocortex and the amygdala.
Short-term (working) memory relies most heavily on the
prefrontal cortex.
• Consolidation and repetition strengthen connections in the
brain and help move things from short to long term memory.
 Banana

Imagine these 4 Bottle of water

A leaf
objects: A cloud
Activity

1st Part
Now, think of objects number 5.

Later, draw these five objects in

a very different way from the
original. Be extremely creative
when making the drawing.
2nd part Now, take those drawings
and make up a story using
those objects.

Once again, be very creative.