NW Noggin volunteers from WSU Vancouver headed north to Battle Ground High School, home of the Tigers, to talk about brains with 75 or so students who had spent their morning dissecting fetal pigs..!
Neuroscience and Psychology students Bradley Mahoney, Chelsey Taylor Anderson, and Jayme Anderson, along with Bill and Jeff, went over some brain basics, including a review of neurons, synapses, information processing in distributed networks, and our five cortical lobes (occipital, parietal, temporal, frontal, and insular)…
Battle Ground students knew a lot about various functional associations, and seemed to enjoy asking questions while examining our well-traveled cerebrums…
It was the first opportunity for some of our WSU-V volunteers to discuss what they know about the brain and behavior with this many students, and they rose to the occasion, and learned something about working and teaching in a high school classroom…
Many thanks to Battle Ground Biology teacher Christi Schulz for inviting us to school!
