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Noggin @ WSUV Kindergarten!
December 10, 2015 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm
We’re heading to the WSU Vancouver campus kindergarten this morning! The students (4 and 5) are currently engaged in what’s called the “Mind Up” program – according to Kelsey Day, their teacher, she has “already been talking to the children about the frontal cortex, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus..!”
We should come prepared to talk/answer questions about these regions and how they develop and interact (e.g., how you have strong feelings/drives related to subcortical structures like amygdala, and require frontal lobe networks – under construction! – to inhibit… 🙂
Jeff will bring a big drawing of the brain, with some subcortical structures illustrated (particularly the amygdala and nucleus accumbens) – then we can ask students (maybe in small groups?) to tell us when they’ve felt strong feelings (really angry, or really motivated) – and whether they were able to control their feelings or not. We can write down their examples on post-it notes and place those experiences directly on the areas of the brain involved.
The class meets in the McClaskey Building, Room 136.