Alternatively, have each student write a paragraph evaluating the results and analyzing the significance of the activity in which they have just participated. Back to Top 1. Modern medical technology allows us to see which parts of the brain are working as we do different activities. Make as long a list as possible of the activities that humans do in their daily lives that are controlled by the cerebellum. Speculate about why humans usually can t remember anything from the first moments let alone the first few months and years of their lives.
Human beings have more complicated social relationships than other animals.
We also have more complex brains. You can ask your students to contribute to the assessment rubric by determining criteria for a reasonable and effective quiz. How Our Brains React Ask students to think of situations in which they reacted strongly to an experience, with anger, fear, sadness, or joy. Ask each to write a few paragraphs imagining that he or she could go back to the time of the incident and swap personalities with a friend or family member whose personality is very different. Chimp Fiction Ask your students to research chimpanzee intelligence and make a chart listing the similarities and differences between what a chimp brain and a human brain can do.