For this I am going
to use play dough to make a brain, simply because it’s really easy to get a
variety of colours and for this brain all we will need is 6 different colours
of play dough!
There are the six
main parts of the brain and they are separated. Each part doing different jobs. I will go through the jobs of each part of
the brain as we do this activity.
STEP ONE
We will start with
the Cerebrum. The Cerebrum is made up of
four parts which are known as lobes. WE will start with the Frontal Lobe.
Roll out your first
colour. Curl it up like a worm and shape
it so it looks something like this…
This is our Frontal
Lobe.
The frontal lobe is where we do all our decision
making, problem solving. You use your
frontal lobe every day. You use it to
decide even simple things like what you want to eat and drink as well as things
like studying.
It is where our
personality is formed. It is our
conscience, where we decide what is good and bad. We consider consequences of our actions. Logic and forming sentences as well as number
sequences.
The Frontal lobe is
where we control our movements. The brain is able to take control of the
muscles in the body via the spinal cord.
STEP TWO
Now get your second play dough colour. Roll
it into a worm like shape and then shape it something like in the photo below,
putting it next to your frontal lobe.
This is your parietal lobe!
The parietal lobe is full of neurons that receive sensory
information from the skin and tongue. It
also processes sensory information from the ears and eyes that are received in
other lobes.
The main sensory signals from the skin,
which is touch, temperature, and pain receptors, pass through the thalamus to
the parietal lobe.
The parietal lobe is important for
processing language.
STEP THREE
Now we are going to make the Temporal
lobe. This fits just underneath the
frontal lobe. Chose a third play dough
colour. Again roll it up and make a
shape similar and place it under the frontal lobe to the photo here...
The Temporal lobe controls and manages: speech, listening, smell and helps us
to understand language – to comprehend. Without our temporal lobe we would not be able
to understand someone who is speaking.
The temporal lobe makes sense of all the different sounds and pitches
being sent to the brain by the receptors of the ears.
The temporal lobe helps us with memory: visual memory,
behaviour and speech. The left side of
the temporal lobe deals with language and visual memory, the right side the ability
to process non-verbal sounds and non-verbal memory.
STEP FOUR
The last of
the cerebrum lobes. Choose your fourth
play dough colour. Again roll it into a
worm like shape and then form it into a shape like below fixing it under the
parietal lobe and next to the temporal. Like so...
This part of
the brain, the occipital lobe, is at
the back of your head. It controls vision processes.
STEP FIVE
For this part of the brain just choose a fifth colour. Shape it like a raindrop squash a little and then place it so the brain model looks like this…
The brain stem controls essential life functions like breathing, blood pressure and your heart beat, things we don’t have to think about, our body just does them.
STEP SIX
The last piece of the
brain we are going to make is the cerebellum, for this we will use our last
colour of play dough. You won’t need as much this time. Roll it up into an oval-like shape and squish it slightly. It should fit just underneath the occipital lobe, like so...
This part of the brain controls basic body functions and is called the cerebellum. This is the part that helps us with our co-ordination, posture and balance.
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