Brain Project Options
Brain Project Options
Brain Project Options
Date:___________
Block:________
You will give a short 5-6 minute presentation on your project. Part of your grade will come from your
peers evaluation of your project and the other part will come from my evaluation. In your presentation
you should include details about the function of the parts of the brain. Do not plan on reading directly
from your project. This should be entertaining for your classmates; reading a board is not entertainingthey know how to read. We will use a scale of 1-10. Here is what you will be graded on:
Informative
Does your project accurately provide information about the brain?
Understandable
Were people able to understand you project and make connections to their knowledge of
the brain?
Creativity
Did you think of interesting ways to convey the information?
Presentation Quality
Does your final product have a professional quality feel? Is there mistakes and do they
detract from your work?
Overall Ranking
Looking at the project as a whole, in class presentation included, how does your work
rank?
Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
7. Amygdala
8. Occipital Lobe
9. Temporal Lobe
10. Parietal Lobe
11. Frontal Lobe
12. Primary Motor Cortex
Character name
Picture/Drawing of that character in his/her full costume
A summary of what this character is all about and what their part of the brain is responsible.
You are on-task and working on the day given to you to work in class.
The summary and drawing should be hand-done on card stock or appropriate paper. No computer
images/typed projects will be accepted.
o Characters should be submitted in full-color, neatly constructed, and of the highest
quality.
o You will not be judged on your artistic talent, but rather the quality of your thought
process.
o Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated.
Example:
Pons Man Pons man has extreme relaxation abilities. Whenever he feels stress, all he has to do is think
of relaxing and hes chill. This is really helpful in extreme situations where his nemesis, Dr. Amygdala is
after him. The pons is responsible for relaxation and relaying information from the two sides of the body.
This project adapted from Justin Galusha, found at http://www.mrgalusha.org/about-us.html
Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
7. Amygdala
8. Occipital Lobe
9. Temporal Lobe
10. Parietal Lobe
11. Frontal Lobe
12. Motor Cortex
For this option you will need to design a menu for a restaurant for zombies. As you know, zombies are
fond of eating brains, and your goal is to create mouth-watering brain dishes for them to enjoy. Your
menu must be in printed form when it is submitted, but you can either design it digitally or by hand.
The name of your restaurant should be prominent on the menu page and the name of the restaurant must
be creative think of a name that would be attractive to zombies.
Each of your dishes must reflect a different part of the brain and be creatively named.
Be sure the name matches the function of the brain part as well. Each of the dishes must include
something about the function of that part, and will need to be described in an attractive way so that a
zombie will look forward to the dish that is, dont just mention that you are serving pituitary lobe, but
perhaps grilled pituitary that grows in your plate over a bed of sauted jasmine rice. The following parts
must be featured on your menu. Include pictures of at least 3 brain dishes.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
7. Amygdala
8. Occipital Lobe
9. Temporal Lobe
10. Parietal Lobe
11. Frontal Lobe
12. Motor Cortex
This project adapted, with permission, from Steve Jones, City of Medicine Academy. Steve can be
contacted at @highschoolpscyh or through his Teaching High School Psychology blog.
Its Function:
Feeding, Fleeing,
Fighting, Sex Drive,
Homeostasis, and
body temperature
Song/Artist:
Hot and Cold by
Katy Perry
Why:
This song is about
love & lust (the sex
drive) and it also
mentions a person
being hot and cold
so it reminded me of
the hypothalamus,
which controls body
temperature.
Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
7. Amygdala
8. Occipital Lobe
9. Temporal Lobe
10. Parietal Lobe
11. Frontal Lobe
12. Motor Cortex
You need not actually make a CD, though you can if you want to. You may type this up, but hand writing
it is perfectly acceptable, too. Be neat if you choose that route, though.