Reflecting on What We Have Learned

Aim: How do we answer the essential questions now? 

Do Now: Give thanks on your blog!

During this very short week, you should be completing your PSA on brain science. What is the important message you want to deliver to your audience? Here is the rubric by which you'll be graded. You may work in groups. The presentation is worth a total of 50 points.

It might be helpful to consider the enduring understandings and essential questions of this unit.

  Enduring Understandings

Use it or lose it. Brains are fragile and at the same time amazingly adaptable. Train your brain: Just as you can increase your physical power with exercise, you can increase your intellectual abilities with thinking. Essential Questions How much of our brain function are we born with and how much do we learn? How can/do we re-wire our brains at times of crisis and challenge? What is the relationship between our brains and our minds? How do our brains and/or minds define us as individuals? Are you convinced of the enduring understandings? Are they messages you will always remember? How have your answers to the essential questions changed since we first began this unit? Final Reflection: To close out this unit, put your thoughts into at least two paragraphs about what you have learned and its significance to you personally in a reflection on your blog. Don't forget to give some context for readers who are not familiar with this course.