WHAT: Noggin Online with 6th – 8th graders in Portland Public Schools!

We did it!! GREAT QUESTIONS!

WHERE: Google Hangout for Creative Science, Portland Public Schools

WHEN: Thursday, May 21 (& 14, 28), 9:45am – 10:45am; Meet first @ 9:30am

CONTACT: Brandan McClain, 6-8th grade Language Arts/Social Studies; Matt Feitelberg, Mid-Level Humanities Teacher, Creative Science School

Get your questions ready! NW Noggin plans to meet again with curious 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Creative Science School, in Portland Public Schools. We’ll have more real brains (onscreen), art project ideas for home, and undergraduates and graduate students studying neuroscience!

The Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) @ OHSU is providing art supplies, and the PDX 3D printing Lab printed full-size human brains to offer teachers in Portland Public Schools!

LEARN MORE: How to 3D Print a Brain

Student Questions
1. Does the brain store long-term and short-term memories in different parts of the brain? -Jack
2. Why do we feel stuff? -Allen
3. The way humans act is so different from the ways other animals act. What actually makes our brains different? -Lillian
4. How does your amygdala actually TELL you to fight or flee? What is it actually doing? -Lucy
5. How do we think?
6. Are there differences in the way our brains behave and learn in person vs online? -Matt

See what we did last week!

Pandemic connections

Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu!

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Danny Gray, PSU
4. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU
5. Sydney Duran, PSU
6. Joey Seuferling, NW Noggin
7. Annabelle Winking, PSU
8. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
9. Aaron Eisen, NUNM
10. Heather Hamilton, OHSU
11. Harper Thomas, PSU
12. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU

We’ve visited Creative Science LIVE in the past. Learn more at the links…

“You get me!” @ Creative Science

Creativity and Science