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Your Amazing Brain

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​Inside your brain... 
  • ​Two hemispheres, each is responsible for different things. 
  • What happens when you hit your head? ​ Click here to find out..
  • Your brain's a muscle-- the more you use it the bigger it gets.​​

Let's see if one hemisphere of your brain is dominate...

  • Are you a good eyewitness?  Watch this short video then answer a few questions.​  Click here.   
  • Listening Exercise​ 

Are you Right Brained or Left Brained?  

  • Take the quiz
  • The Goal-- to use your whole brain!  

BONUS... your amazing brain 

Brain Games- National Geographic Kids; 4 illusions/games, each about 1 minute, scroll to bottom of page.
Optical Illusions- 17 different optical illusions, from Optics4Kids
Brain Waves- shows levels of brain activity during rest, sleep, dreaming
Super Sense... Optical Illusions (Stroop Effect, Brightness Illusion), Upside down face.