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BRAIN QUEST
Requirements
Title
Table of Contents
Introduction
Activities
Conclusion
Bibliography
Activities
1.
Brain power
2. Vocabulary words
3. Memory bank
4. What's on your mind?
5. Learning test
6. Great minds
7. Metaphors
8. Mind blowers
9. Where is your mind headed?
10. What is he or she thinking?
11. The great minds list.
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Activity
# 1 Brain Power
¨ Label the parts of the brain
a) Include a cross section diagram
b) Include an important brain areas diagram
Activity
# 2
Define the following vocabulary words: (Write the pronunciation, part
of speech and the definition.)
1. Memory
2. Brain
3. Mind
4. Intellect
5. Synapse
6. Dendrites
7. Cranium
8. Cerebellum
9. Cerebral
10. Cortex
11. Cerebrum
12. Medulla
13. Convolutions
14. Nerve
15. Spinal cord
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Activity
# 3 What's on Your Mind?
Memory Bank
a) Recall a time in your life between the ages of 4 and 7 years of
age when you were afraid of something. Give as many details of the
event as possible. (100 word minimum)
b) Recall a place that you have visited that made you very happy.
Describe that place in detail. (100 word minimum)
Activity
# 4 What's on Your Mind?
Draw a profile of your head. Illustrate in symbols, words or pictures
what is on your mind right now. (20 item minimum)
Activity
# 5 Learning Test
Experiment with your ability to learn a sequence of numbers or a list
of names. ( i.e., the presidents.)
Record the exact amount of time it takes you to learn this list.
1. visually
2. auditory
3. orally
4. tactically
5. manipulatively
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Activity
# 6 Great Minds List
Choose two names from the "Great Minds" list.
1. Gather information on each "great mind."
2. Put this information in your report. It can be neat notes in outline
form. (50 word minimum on each "great mind.")
3. Compare their backgrounds, education, failures and achievements.
(You must have 10 comparisons)
4. Contrast the two. Write a minimum of 10 differences.
Activity
# 7 Metaphors
Explain in writing each of the following metaphors or sayings:
(Write 3 complete sentences for each one.)
1. Speak your mind
2. Never mind
3. Changed my mind
4. Out of sight, out of mind
5. Peace of mind
6. Mind over matter
7. Mind your own business
8. He's a brain
9. Mind your manners
10. Keep that in mind
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Activity
# 8 Mind Blowers
Evaluate whether each of the following topics would be a "mind
blower" or a "mind expander" for you. Explain your
reasons in complete sentences. ( You must have 6 specific reasons
for each topic.)
Hint: Looking each topic up before you begin
helps!
1. Marijuana
2. Reading the newspaper
3. Radio
4. Karate
5. Cigarette smoking
6. Taking a test
7. Television
8. Wine
9. Sniffing glue
10. Meditation
11. A baseball game
12. Praying
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Activity # 9 Where Is Your Mind Headed?
¨ List ten (10) of your present abilities.
¨ Choose five (5) abilities that you would like to acquire sometime
in your life.
¨ Explain each of the five abilities that you would like to acquire.
(Write a minimum of 25 words for each ability.)
Activity
# 10 What Is He/She Thinking?
Find five (5) photographs of interesting people. Mount each of the
photographs on a separate page and write a minimum of 50 words on
what each person in each photograph is thinking. You should have quotation
marks or a bubble around the thought in each photograph.
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Activity
# 11 Your Future Plans
¨ List five (5) accomplishments that you will achieve in your
future.
¨ Explain each of the five accomplishments in complete sentences.
You will need to explain the "what" and the "why."
( 25 word minimum for each)
Great
Minds List
1. Isaac Newton
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Michael Faraday
4. Charles Darwin
5. Jonas E. Salk
6. William T.B. Morton
7. Luther Burbank
8. Louis B. Leakey
9. Colin Powell
10. Minoru Yamasaki
11. Nelson Mandela
12. Jiang Zemin
13. Mahatma Ghandi
14. Thurgood Marshall
15. Rosa Parks
16. Joseph Lister
17. Marie Curie
18. Benjamin Franklin
19. Leonardo da Vinci
20. The Wright Brothers
21. Samuel Johnson
22. Henry Ford
23. Thomas Alva Edison
24. George Washington Carver
25. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
26. Walter Reed
27. Galileo
28. William Shakespeare
29. Johann Sebastian Bach
30. Albert Einstein
31. Sigmund Freud
32. Benjamin Banneker
33. Louis Pasteur
34. I.M. Pei
35. Maya Lin
36. John Adams
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