10-28-2008

=**Tuesday October 28, 2008**=

Connections: [|Us vs. Them Politics]

1. Return tests; discuss free-response questions. 2. Taser Quiz on Reading Assignment (open notebook) 3. Synapse Open Arms Demo 4. PowerPoint Notes: Nervous System Slides 26-36 The Brain-Slides 43-73 5. Build a Better Brain Competition-Group Planning Time

**VORB Assignment** (Video, Outside Reading, Blogging)-Due Thursday Oct. 3
 * Homework:**
 * Watch & Read All of Them!! Just Kidding....60-90 minutes.....watching, reading & blogging. Use links, terms, ask questions, what does it reinforce, what does it make you think about.
 * 3-D Brain Model-2/3 person groups-Due Monday November 3rd **

Video: [|Mouse Party] (Drug Action on the Synapse) [|Memorize The Parts of the Brain] [|The Split Brain] [|Keith Barry: Brain Magic] (TED Talk) [|Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke of Insight] (TED Talk....this was the neuroscientist on Oprah last week) [|Making a Computer That Works Like a Brain] (TED Talk) [|The Brain #1-Organization and Evaluation of Brain Function] [| The Brain #2-The Fronal Lobes and Behavior: The Story of Phineas Gage] [| The Brain #5-The Divided Brain] [|The Brain #6-Language and Speech: Broca and Wernicke's Areas] [|The Brain #7-Braini Anomaly and Plasticity: Hydrocephalus] [|The Brain #32-Neurorehabilitation] [|The Mind #6-Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure and Addiction] [| The Mind #7-The Frontal Lobes: Cognition and Awareness] [|The Mind #8-Language Processing in the Brain] [|The Mind#18-Effects of Mental and Phyusical Activity on Brain/Mind]

Readings: [|India's Novel Use of Brain Scans in courts is Debated] (NY Times) [|Minds Are Simply What Brains Do] (MIT) [|Dopamine!](contains video too) [|Brain Briefings] - Society for Neuroscience (pick a topic from the list) [|The Power of Plasticity Transcript] (part 1 of 2, All In The Mind-ABC National Radio) [|The Unspeakable Odyssey of the Motionless Boy] (read this if you are having a bad day....you won't feel so bad after you read it) [|Brain Immediately Recognizes Transplanted Hand] [|Your iBrain: How Technology Changes the Way You Think] (Scientific American) [|Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Says] [|Musical Training Enhances Integration of Senses] [|Neural Light Show: Scientists Use Genetics To Map and Control Brain Functions]

This doesn't count but is an interesting [|simple left brain/right brain test].