Brain+Research

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 * The brain is complex**. __Understanding how it functions can help teachers become more effective instructors__. How //does// the brain remember? What can we do //to help// it learn and remember more efficiently and accurately? How does //age// relate to a learner's cognitive abilities?

Today we will begin our journey toward understanding the brain. We will identify a few key strategies to improving our instruction and our students' acquisition of knowledge. Like the brain, this site will grow and change with new information received. Like the brain, you can "use it, or lose it."



[|**Lobes of the Brain**] Can you solve the puzzle to identlfy the four lobes of the human brain?

Test Your Brain Try one or more of these brain tests (Brain Speed Test; Word List Recall; Speech in Noise) and see your brain strengths and challenges. How might your findings apply to your students?

[|More Brain Games] Try these other games to assess - and sharpen - your brain skills!

[|Right Brain/Left Brain: Quiz 1] [|Right Brain/Left Brain: Quiz 2] Take the two quick tests above. Is the answer the same for each? Are you **right-brain** dominant or **left-brain** dominant?