Project Title: Save Our Brains
Mission:
Culminating / Take Action Project
Create a graphic design poster campaign to raise awareness about traumatic brain injury and help people take action to protect their brains. Â
What Kids Learn
In this project, kids will explore the life science and physical science of energy, speed, collisions, and brain injury. They’ll begin by studying how the brain works and its structure, how the skull protects the brain, and why that protection isn’t enough. Then, students will learn about the physics of collisions and how speed and weight impact energy and energy transfer. Finally, students will learn how collisions damage our neurons and prevent brain growth or function, and how helmets can reduce the risk of injury. Students also learn about graphic design techniques from a professional designer to help them create effective graphic designs that raise awareness about brain safety, utilizing their persuasive writing skills to encourage others to take action.Â
Overview
Life Habit Focus: Learner
Subject: Life science, Physical science, ELA
Grade: 3-5
Topic: Brains, energy transfer, collisions, graphic design, persuasive writing.
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Project Materials
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Student Notebook
Teacher's Guide
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Virtual Field Trips
One of our goals is to help kids connect what they are learning in our projects to the real world beyond the classroom. To do that, we’ve partnered with experts to help students learn from and virtually visit with experts from around the world. The Save Our Brains project features:Â
Dr. Nahdia Jones
Students meet neuroscientist Dr. Nahdia Jones from Columbia University in New York City. She teaches students what it’s like to be a neuroscientist and about key information about the brain.Â
Designer Maurice Cherry
Students meet designer Maurice Cherry from Atlanta Georgia. He teaches students tips and strategies to create professional graphic design posters that inspire people to take action.
Aligned Standards
Common Core Reading (CCSS):
- Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades 3-5.
- Writing Standards W1,2,4,5,6,7,9 for grades 3-5.
- Listening and Speaking Standards SL1-SL6.
NGSS Standards:
- 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
- 4-LS1-2:Â Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
- 4-PS3-1:Â Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
- 4-PS3-3:Â Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
- 4-PS3-4:Â Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
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