The Brain

5th grade TAG students are studying the brain as a unit in their language arts class. They are reading Mick Harte Was Here, a book involving a bike accident resulting in a death due to not wearing a helmet. They will be researching about structures of the brain, multiple intelligences, and about bike helmet safety statistics. 

UT Research Engineering Scientist (and one of our moms), Ms. Elizabeth Osterndorff-Kahanek, who works on the effects of addiction on the brain, came in with a model of the structures of the brain and gave the students an overview of the function of each section. Then they watched her dissect a mouse brain to see the similar structures and viewed slides through her microscope. The students will complete a brain webquest tomorrow,