Brain Geography
Brain Geography
Grade Levels
10th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
Course, Subject
Science and Technology and Engineering Education, Science
Author
Materials
Description
This web-based practice can be used as a review for students or for the students to investigate find their own definitions for the brain. The students can click on parts of the brain and will be given a definition. After they learn about the parts of the brain, they can answer questions to a few scenarios with patients that have had head trauma.
Duration
20 minutes
Procedure
- Give each student a handout and make sure they put their name on it.
- Have students go to the website Coma; each student should have their own computer.
- Tell students to click on Brain Geography . This is where they will do the assignment.
- Students will answer questions from the website about the brain.
- When they are done answering questions from the worksheet, they can answer the questions to the scenarios about brain trauma. Here, students get to diagnose what part of the brain a person injured.
- Once students are finished, collect their papers and use your own grading scale.