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The Brain
Enduring Understanding: The brain is the control center of the
body
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Essential Questions: What are the major parts of the brain?
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26 : Identify the major parts of the brain on diagrams or models
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Do you think this is a

survivable injury? Why or why not? Please explain
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Large
paired structures, divided into
left and right hemispheres

Carries out higher thought processes
involved with language, learning,
memory, and voluntary body
movements

Means “little brain”
Smaller structure under the
base at the back of the brain

Extending from the base of the
brain; this continues into the
spinal cord, made up of the pons
and medulla oblongata

Responsible for balance and
coordination

Relays signals between the brain and
spinal cord

External Features of the Brain
Cerebrum

Brain stem
Cerebellum

The Brain Stem
Brain Stem
Region

Structure

Function

Pons

Top region of the brain stem

Relays signals between cerebrum and
cerebellum
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Connects to the spinal cord
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helps control blood pressure, heart
rate, and breathing rate
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Most uniquely human of all the brain structures
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Middle top of the brain
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Temple region
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Brain Cap Activity: Step 1
 Mark the lobes we discussed on your cap with a permanent marker
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Brain Cap Activity: Step 2
 Map the functional areas as seen in the diagram below with different colored permanent

markers
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Different function
are located in particular regions of each lobe

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