Weekly SEL Lesson-Mindset Matters Weekly Focus: Neuroscience

Welcome to the CLS Daily SEL lesson. Each day, Monday through Friday, we will provide a new social-emotional learning lesson designed to build emotional intelligence and resilience. There will be a lesson for elementary students and a lesson for secondary students that include media (videos, audios, or text) and simple step-by-step instructions.

We hope that the lessons are helpful to you and your children.

Elementary Lesson – Meet the Parts of Your Brain

Media: Video – 

Instructions:

1. After watching the video, name the parts of the brain and what they do.
2. Draw and color a picture of the brain, using a different color for each part of the brain.

Secondary Lesson – Your Brain is Plastic

Instructions:

1. After watching this video, what additional questions do you have about the brain or something said in the presentation. Write no less than three questions. 
2. Define the following words: neuroplasticity, dendrites, synapses, neurons, axons, brain cells, synaptic pruning, memory