Rm.5 visit by the Neuroscientist.

Visit by the Neuroscientist

In the afternoon, we got prepared for a neuroscientist who was
coming to Room5 at St Pius X Catholic School. The reason for the
visit was because we are learning about the brain. 

There were three areas where we did three different activities.
The first activity we did was testing if both of our hands could
do something that we never have done or thought to do before.we
had to try to button up a shirt with one hand. Then we had to try
and button it up using our other hand to see which hand was stronger. 

If you could do it easily with both hands, it’s called being ambidextrous.

The next activity we did was looking in the mirror and tracing the star
but you can’t look at the star. **Add in here what you thought of this
activity.

The last activity was feeling brain with your hands. When I felt 
the brain, I felt awesome because it was my first time touching a
real brain! My group was scared to touch the brain because it
was real and dead.

**Angeline, add in here which activity was your favourite and why.

After going to all of the fun activities that we did, we asked questions
if we had one.I learnt some new facts facts about the brain. The brain
is one of the largest and most important organs in the human body. It
is made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate in trillions
of connections called synapses.

Our brains keep growing until the age of 23. The brain makes up about
2 percent of a human's body weight.  There are about 100 billion neurons
in our brains!

After we finished asking all of our questions, I had learnt more about
the brain.