HBS- Activity 2.1.3Map-A-Brain Swim Caps

Valerie ParkSage Creek High School

Carlsbad Unified

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Unit 2- Communication

Whether the body is communicating electrically or chemically, the brain interprets our needs and responds to maintain homeostasis.

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Phineas Gage

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Phineas Gage (1823- 1860) was an American railroad construction foreman who survived after an iron rod was driven through his skull, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal lobe. His case was the first to suggest a link between brain trauma and personality change.

Brain Mapping• The specific

changes observed in Gage’s behavior led to emerging theories about the idea that certain functions are associated with specific areas of the brain.

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Activity 2.1.3 • Working with a team of four, research the

areas of the brain responsible for the following actions, emotions, personality traits, or functions.

• Vision (1)• Muscle coordination (2)• Breathing (3)• Happiness (4)• Language understanding (5)• Thirst and Hunger (6)• Speech Production (7)• Movement (8)• Smell (9)• Reasoning (10)• Long-term memory (11)• Hearing (12)• Bodily sensations, such as touch, temperature and pain (13)• Taste (14)• Blood pressure regulation (15)• Sleeping and waking (16)• Balance (17)• Problem-solving (18)

Use the spreadsheet created from Activity 2.1.2: Build-A-Brain to add specific activities and icons. Ex.

2.1.3 Spreadsheet

Region of the Brain

Location Primary Function

Specific Activities/ Processes

Icons/ Keys for Maps

Frontal lobe

Anterior half of the brain

     

Parietal lobe  

Located posterior to the frontal lobe, the superior most part of the brain

     

Occipital lobe  

Posterior portion of the brain

     

Swim Cap Design• Design a map of the brain that identifies

key structures as well as the specific abilities or traits linked to each region.

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PLTW Resource Sheet

The PLTW Resource Sheets are great for students to practice

on before drawing on the swim caps.

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PLTW Resource Sheet

Exterior brain view

Interior brain view

Icons or a key

Let’s get started….

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Broca’s AreaSpeech Production

Problem Solving

Happiness

ReasoningTaste

Long Term MemoryMotor Cortex- Movement

Bodily Sensations- touch, temperature, pain  

Vision

 

Hearing

Wernicke’s Area-Language Understanding

CerebellumMuscle CoordinationBalance

Brain StemSleeping & WakingBreathing

 

Medulla OblongataBlood Pressure Regulation

Thirst & HungerSmell

Happiness

Long Term Memory

Olfactory BulbSmell

Pineal GlandSleeping and waking

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Sensory Perception &Regulation of motor function

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Phineas Gage - His Amazing Story. (2014, May 16). Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/phineas-gage.htm

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Twomey, S. (2010, January). History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/#7Bo73b9lPqqJeFtz.99