We get AMAZING questions from the K-12 students we visit – questions that might stump some of the foremost experts in neuroscience!
“Why do headaches hurt?” “What happens when two emotions go against each other?” “Why do you remember some dreams and not others?” “How does the brain know what we are going to even though were not thinking about doing it?”
“Why does my brain work the way it does?”
Noggin volunteers, including several from the Neuroscience Club at Portland State University, recently traveled south to the beautiful city of Grants Pass, Oregon, to meet with over 300 students at North Middle School. We were guests of Art Teacher Michael Endicott, who wrote about the experience with college students, extra noggins and art…
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His students had thought of questions before we arrived, and these were arranged on post-it notes all over the classroom walls!
Just about everyone is curious about their own brains, and what we’re discovering about them – so it’s a shock to learn from biology teachers that both state and federal Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) barely mention our remarkable nervous systems, despite their dramatic growth and development during K-12!
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Volunteers Cam Howard and Aaron Eisen transcribed every question!
Here they are…enjoy!!
- “How come the brain never rests when we sleep?” -M.B.
- “How does your brain able to do so many things” -A.B.
- “How many thoughts can go through your mind posible?” -A.G.J.
- “How do you lose brain cells? How long is your brain developing? What happens to your brain when you do drugs?” -D.P.
- “Who do some peoples brain take longer to develop?” -F.C.
- “How do they know where everything belongs?” -I.P.
- “Why are their so many lines and curves?”
- “Why does your brain get so stress out?” -A.G.J.
- “Is one side of the brain neccesarilly smarter” -J.P.D.R.
- “How do people know how big other peoples brains are?” -R.I.
- “If a piece of your brain is removed like your occeitonal lobe will you be blinded fore ever?” -R.D.
- “How does the Brain know when it tierd?”
- “Why can’t the brain tell the difference between real and fake?”
- “How does music affect our brain?”
- “What is the average brain size”
- “How did they find out what parts of the brains did what?” -B.B.
- “What dose the temporal lobe do?” -D.J.L.A.
- “Why is controlling they eyes/occipital lobe in back?”
- “How does the brain reuct so quick”
- “IF enny thing is posibal for your brain can you fly? Hoy does your brain cunect to your eyes?” -C.F.
- “yeet per.3 do I have a brin if i am smart”
- “Can you feel your brain thinking? 💡😊” D.
- “How does the brain know what we are going to even though were not thinking about doing it?” Evangeline Period 7
- “Why did you chose this profeshin??” -A.
- “How many different sections are in your brain?”
- “wanna sprite cranberry?”
- “what happens inside the brain of old people with childhood truama?”
- “Why does your brain not tell reaality form non reality?”
- “what is more important the brain or the heart?”
- “Why did you call it the brain”
- “How long ago did we discover we had brains?”
Depends on the brain! The human cortex is definitely wrinkled, for more surface area (more brain cells, and more brain circuits, than smoother brains). Artwork by Jeff Leake…
- “Do people use %10, or 80% of their brain.” -P.B.
- “Why do you remember some dreams and not others?”
- “Is your brain bigger in size if your smarter?” -V. H.
- “How big is the amigdala”
- “What is the main use of the brain?”
- “How much brain do we use?” -K.L.
- “Is the brain squishzzy” -D.
- “how many neurons are in an average brain” -D.M.
- “Can brains be different coller”
- “How Big Is A Brain For A 12 Year Old?” -K. S.
- “Why do we got brains”
- “How many different types of cells are in your brain?” -A. T.
- “If your fat is your brain fat” -M.
- “does your Brain Fart??”
- “Why dose the brain control everything?” -K.C.
- “Have you ever tasted a brain !?!?” -T.R.
- “You know The saying Brain fart douse the Brain fart” -B.N.
- “How many cells are in your brain.” -B.R.
- “what is the main part of the brain?” -O.B.
- “Is the brain squishy or hard?” -C.
- “Do smarter people have bigger brains?” -K.K.
- “why does the left part of your brain control the right part of your body and the right part control your left part of the body.”
- “does our brain have to be pink???”
- “Why do we have brains”
- “how long in ft. is the brain if you stretch it out?” -L.
- “Why does the left side of the brain control the body and the right side the left.”
- “Do you always have dreams if so why do we have them?” -Z.M.
- “is it squishy is it pink”
- “The Brain can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy” -R. C.
- “the Brain is folded yes or NO”
- “How much does and overage human adult brain weigh?” -S.R.
- “Why does my brain work the way it does?”
- “How much memory storage do we have in our brains?”
- “How many of the noodle things are in your Brain”
- “What is the diffrent betwen a lobe and a cortex”
- “Why do you only use some of your brain?”
- “Why does the left side of your brain control the rightsideof your body and the left sid of your brain controle left side of your body”
- “What is your brain made of؟” -B.
- “How dose our brain progect our droms?”
- “if that your brain have a lot of cells”
- “what else does the Brain do?” -S.
- “Why where these linars in the brain”
- “Whot affects how big your brain is?”
- “why does the left part of the brian do mork work nent the outher”
- “What does Smoking do to the brain?”
- “why do they control everything”
- “how do you know how big your brain is” -K.
- “what happens when two emotions go against each other” -Z.A.
- “If you are under the influience of something that is not child safe then will it damage your Brain?” -M.M.
- “Is the Brain Pink“
- “Does our brain develop what makes us laugh?” -C.H.
- “Why is the brain Pink?”
- “wear is short term at”
- “why do we die?”
- “what does the motor cortex do?”- A.C.
- “what part of the brain maks questions?”
- “Does the Brain functon on it own how dose we change the Brain”
- “Why dus are Bran not sleep and work wan your sleepy? is that why you wake uo and you dont now what to do???”
- “How is Albert-Einstine’s brain different then ours if it is different?”
- “What does the Parietal lobe do”
- “How does the brain decide on things”-R.S.
- “how do you know what part of the brain are you working on” -G.T.
- “Does the brain cause your head to hurt?”-K.M.
- “How Big is the Brain” -A.N.
- “How big is the brain?”
- “How can you change your Brain” -J.S.
- “Why do we need a Occipital lobe what does it do?”
- “How does the brain work?” -S.G.
- “do are bruab grwo mroe” -J.B.
- “howe do you know the nams of the parts of the Brane” -E.H.
- “how can your brain hold you back from falling into pure pressure?” -M.B.
- “boy how many cells have brain? girl how many cell have brain?” -R.R.
- “How does the brain function?”
- “How do we know which lobe does what?” -A.A.
- “What does smoking do to your brain?”
- “Why do we need all the different lobes” -J.T.G.
- “What brain part does make you do school work?” -N.B.
- “Why are people’s “intelligence” levels all different?” -L.M.
- 1 how are some people artistic and others not? 2 why do some peop know more things 3 how do some people memorise more things”
- “Why do headaches hurt?” -F.C.
- “1. Why is there different parts of the brain with different jobs 2. Why is the Occipital Lobe in the back where the eyes arn’t” -S.R.
- “Why do we see things that we think of?”
- “What happens in the motor cortex” -J.W.C.
- “How does The Brain send signals” -A.H.
- “How hard is brian Surgy out a scale 1 threw 20” -S.C.
- “Is everyone’s Brain the same size?”
- “How does The Brain learn so many words and not forget????” -H.S.
- “Whya are ore brains so complicated and why are ther only certain parts of the brain to do one thing”
- “Why do we speak in our Head?” -I.H.
- “Why and How do they know each Parts of the brains Job” -J.S.
- “How big is our brain?”-S.M.
- “What does the Parietal Lobe do? Why is the Parietal Lobe on both sides?” -S.M.
- “dose the brane work beter when you are sleeping?”
- “How do scientist know which part of the brain does which job?” -M.B.
Not intentionally!
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- “Questions:
1 How many parts are in the brain?
2 Why are brains called brains?” -A.E. - “How many cells dose the brain have” -F.F.
- “why re start your brain why do you lose memorys stupid brain”
- “How did the brain name itself???”
- “when you stop a scary movie before it ends, are you probably gonna get nightmares because your brain is making up endings?”
- “Quistion. 1. What is the occopital lobe used to do?” -L.D.
- “When did Scientist discovere the brian?” -E.N.
- “Are all brans built the same?” -A.P.
- “Does your brain ever stop. Can you change your brain.”
- “How is Dopine made”-N.D.
- “If you are brain dead can you still process thoughts? when you process thoughts how does your brain react to that?”
- “How can the Brain tell your body what to do?”-M.S.
- “Do the different parts of the brain go fully to the middle of is their something between them”-S.
- “what makes you like and dislike things?” -K.P.
- “Why is the part that controls your eyes in the back of your head?”-B.R.S.
- “Does the size of your Brain Matter?” -C.J.
- “Why does the brain have so many parts inside?” -J.H.S.
- “What part of the brain helps you to remember and to play on instriment” -T.H.
- “What happens when you acsidintily poke a babys soft spot will the brain stop working?” -M.T.
- “Why is the frontal love for the talents” -C.M.C.
- “Which came first chicken or the egg” -L.A.
- “How many parts are in the brain?” -C.B.
- “Why are there so many parts of the brain” -G.B.
- “do brains work really hard” -K.F.
- “Do brains sleep?” -G.M.
- “How many viens and arterys are in the brain”
- “Is an adult brain bigger than a child or teens brain?” -B.M.
- “How did the human race discover the brain?”
- “what is the averag brain wheight for humans” -T.S.
- “If your brain doesn’t feel pain then why do head aches hurt?”
- “What do the left and right side of the bran do diffrntly”
- “How does the brain process & react to information?”
- “Does the brain control blinking?” -E.A.
- “What part of the brain controls the whole thing” -J.A.
- “How does your brain memorize things?”
- “How much blood is in the brain?”
- “How did scientists determine which part of the brain did one thing and another part did another” -S.W.
- “How do scientists know what to name the part of the brain” -Y.C.
- “How do scientist know what each part of the brain does?” -E.B.S.
- “1) can your brain shut down if you don’t exercise
2) how does the brain work” - “what is the main use of the partetal lobe?” -R.L.
- “How do you know all the Lobes?” -A.F.
- “What type of brains are there.”
- “What Part of your brain makes you hungry?” -C.B.
- “if you hert your Brain will it grow back and will you rember it agian” -H.S.
- “How do sientiests know when people that played football know that it doesnt function as well as a person who doesent????” -J.M.
- “What is Brain Fog?” -K.S.
- “Dose the left side of your brain control only the left side of your body.” -F.F.
- “Why is the frontal Love the Bigest”
- “What does the Partetal Lobe do?”
- “What happens when you get a concushion? How long will it take for a concushion to heal?” -B.R.M.
- “Why is the brain shaped in that particular order?” -M.
- “Why do teenagers need so much sleep?”
- “How do we know what part of the brain does what?” -B.B.
- “What is the motor cortex responsible for” -K.K.
- “What would happen if we had no brain? would we still be able to walk and speek.”
- “If your brain cells die can you regrow new ones?”
- “Why does the Temporal lobe have all the actions we do?”-J.F.
- “how do we know that we need to go to the bathroom” -X.P.
- “How can the brain procces so much?” -T.L.C.
- “How does the Brain deside which memorie to forget” -T.H.
- “How hard is Brain Sursery” -L.C.
- “1. How does the brain specifically make images in in
How does the brain make words inside your head?” - “”How does the brain control your body?” -A.H.
- “If people are deaf what language do they think in?” -E.B,
