WHAT: Noggin outreach in Hawaii!

We did it!

LEARN MORE AT THE LINK

Ho brah, he lolo maoli kēlā!

WHERE: Waikiki School, via ZOOM (links to come)

WHEN: Tuesday, February 9, 10:15am – 12:30am (First session 10:15am – 11:15am; Second session 11:30 – 12:30)

We’re going island style brah!

Noggin volunteers will visit 5th grade students at Waikiki Elementary two mornings (Tuesday and Thursday) this week. “Faculty at Waikiki Elementary School are leaders in the community who share a passion for teaching and creating a supportive learning environment that is challenging, collaborative and engaging.”

Students will have identified parts of a neuron & parts of the brain in class. Students will also have questions prepared to ask volunteers. We’ll also build our own brain cells (both neurons and glia) out of found objects!

JOIN US!

Please email griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu to get involved.

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, Portland State University, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, Portland State University
3. Aaron Eisen, NW Noggin, National University of Natural Medicine, OHSU
4. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin
5. Melissa Sek, PSU
6. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU
7. Annabelle Winking, PSU
8. Connie Tran, PSU
9. Amelia Lichtenberg, PSU
10. Jasmin Mabry, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
11. Michael Deveney, PSU
12. Melissa DeMoura, PSU
13. Tiara Freeman, PSU
14. Paul Delahanty, PSU
15. Sheila Stern, American Brain Coalition
16. Kit Carlson, artist
17. Nancy MacKenzie, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO

Questions from 5th grade!

● How does the brain dream at nighttime?
● How does the brain develop memories?
● What if our body didn’t have sensory nerves, but had nerves?
● What if our body didn’t have nerves but had sensory nerves?
● Why do younger people remember more memories than older people?
● Does the brain control our emotions, thoughts and behaviors?
● What is the brain made of?
● When the brain is dead, does it change color?
● Does the brain grow larger as you keep on growing?
● What colors can brains become?
● My first question for the neuroscientist is how does your brain react to loud noises.
● My second question for the neuroscientist is how does your brain react to moving objects.
● How does your brain store important information?
● Could you switch your brain with something similar?
● Would the word color reading experiment be easier or harder for preschoolers?
● If one of my senses didn’t work would I panic if I did the hole in the hand experiment?
● Why do we have dreams?
● Why do we get excited?
● What does the brain feel like, is it mushy, is it soft?
● Is the brain really pink like in the movies?
● Why does the brain panic?
● What does the brain do when it becomes overloaded?
● If two people switched brains what would happen?
● Could you replace the brain with something the same shape and texture?
● How does the brain control our body?
● If we get a new brain would we forget our memories?
● I wonder what would happen if you swapped your brain with someone else. Would you have his memories? Why or why not?
● Why does my brain tell my body what to do?
● How does my brain have room for my memories?
● Are nerves hard like thin bones or are they soft and stringy like yarn?
● When we get headaches, are they happening in our brain and if so why and how?
● Why do we dream?
● What sports require really good reaction time and how does our brain learn how to react?
● How does our brain know that our body is in distress?
● How do signals travel through sensory nerves to the brain?
● What does a brain feel like?
● What makes a brain function your body?
● Is it true that bigger brains are smarter than smaller brains?
● How does the brain not have any moving parts?
● Why do we have blood in our brain?
● Which is the most important part in the human, brain or heart?
● How fast does the brain make decisions, give information and control your muscles to other parts of the body?
● How come the brain is in our head?
● What’s the difference between a smart brain vs. a not smart brain?
● How many parts of the brain are there and what are they called?
● How does the brain send commands to the other parts of your body?
● I wonder why we don’t just run out of storage in our brain?
● Why are we able to work with one muscle?
● Why is the brain slimy?
● Where do brains come from?
● How does our brain control us?
● Is our brain the only body part that controls our body?
● When you sleep, does your brain sleep?
● When you dream does your brain memorize stuff and put it together in the dream?
● What would happen if we couldn’t feel pain from our nervous system?
● What if we didn’t have our nervous system?
● How many cells does the brain have?
● How does the brain work? Does it have anything like a motor?
● How does our brain decide what goes in our dreams?
● Why does the brain not remember things that happened a long time ago?
● The brain controls our body, is there a way to alter the brain to become some sort of godly figure?
● What if there was some sort of zombie apocalypse, would we be mindless?
● Have you ever touched a brain?
● What is inside the brain?
● Where does the brain keep memories?
● Why does the body parts get weaker when we get older?
● How do blue light glasses actually work when playing video games?
● Why do we get happy or mad when you win or lose in video games? It does feel like I accomplish something, but it’s just a game.
● When we’re scared, why do we scream?
● How can someone get over dyslexia?
● How does your brain flip the pictures that you see?
● Why do brains look like they have those tubes?
● How can our brain contain all these memories?
● Why does our brain use up so much energy?
● What if our body didn’t have sensory nerves, but had nerves?
● What if our body didn’t have nerves but had sensory nerves?
● Can a person survive without a brain?
● Are there different types of brains?
● Who named the brain?
● Do we have infinite memory?
● How does the brain store memories?
● How does the brain control your body?
● What would happen if our brains were shaped differently than they are right now? Would we still act the same?
● Are animal brains similar to human brains?
● Does the brain grow larger as you keep on growing?
● What colors can brains become?
● What if the brain was 2x smaller?
● What if the brain was 2x bigger?
● Is our brain the hardest worker of our body part?
● How does it store so many memories when it’s so small?
● What would happen if your brain could not make decisions?
● What if humans’ reaction time was a second?
● What would it be like if you switched, you’re brain with a dog’s brain?
● Why do we think certain things are beautiful and some things are not?
● How do we store all of our memories in our brains?
● Why do we dream?
● Does the brain have a limit to storing and learning new things?
● Why do people lose their memory?
● How will you figure out how the brain works?
● Where do you get brains to dissect?
● Why does the brain have memory (how does it remember things)?
● Why do some brain think differently?
● What is the brain made of?
● When the brain is dead, does it change color?
● My first question for the neuroscientist is how does your brain react to loud noises?
● My second question for the neuroscientist is how does your brain react to moving objects?
● Do we need our brain to help us walk and talk?
● Every one of our memories in our brain do they disappear or just stay in our head?
● How do brains work?
● Why are brains the shape it is?
● Can the Brain learn anything?
● How many parts are in the Brain?
● How does the brain dream at night time?
● How does the brain develop memories?
● What can I do to have a super healthy brain?
● What are brain waves?
● How do we make decisions?
● What is intelligence?
● Why do younger people remember more memories than older people?
● Does the brain control our emotions, thoughts and behaviors?