Brains! More Brains!

 Studying brains for our "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" unit.   Who knew brains could be fun?  We made brain 'hats' from this site http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/curriculum/brain/pa03pdf/0301B-Cap.pdf

 Check out my daughter's medulla oblongata.  Awesome, no?  (quick-name the movie in which "Medulla Oblongata" was featured in a free form poem by John Goodman.  You will get 1,000,000 cool points!)

And of course, strawberry jello brains, courtesy of a dear friend who had these molds and was kind enough to share them.

We also played brain 'games' from this site  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/experi.html

We learned what each lobe of the brain controls, as well as how each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body.

(PS- my daughter declared this her 'Thinking Cap'.  I found that highly amusing.)