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Find out your dominant hemisphere.
Recall what we said about the Brain
Myth #2: A person's personality displays a right -brain or left -brain
dominance. Fact: The two sides
are intricately co- dependent.
This myth holds that a right -brain person is generally creative, intuitive, artsy, while a left -brain person is more of a problem -solver, more linear, logical. The myth arose from genuine science, but new imaging technology has shown that the brain is more interdep endent than once thought. The myth probably took root in the 1800s, when scientists discovered that an injury to one side of the brain often cause d a loss of specific abilities. For example, spatial abilities seemed to reside in the right side of the brain, with language in the left. The myth gained ground in the 1960s, when scientists studied epilepsy patients who had surgery to sever the connection between the two hemispheres.
But more recently, brain scan technology has revealed that the hemispheres' roles are not quite so cut - and- dried as once thought. The two hemispheres are in fact highly complementary. For example, language processing, once believed to be left - hemisphere- only, is now understood to take place in both hemispheres: the left side processes grammar and pronunciation while the right processes intonation.
What remains true is that t he right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa.
Take this test to find your dominant hemisphere. Do you agree with the result?
This myth holds that a right -brain person is generally creative, intuitive, artsy, while a left -brain person is more of a problem -solver, more linear, logical. The myth arose from genuine science, but new imaging technology has shown that the brain is more interdep endent than once thought. The myth probably took root in the 1800s, when scientists discovered that an injury to one side of the brain often cause d a loss of specific abilities. For example, spatial abilities seemed to reside in the right side of the brain, with language in the left. The myth gained ground in the 1960s, when scientists studied epilepsy patients who had surgery to sever the connection between the two hemispheres.
But more recently, brain scan technology has revealed that the hemispheres' roles are not quite so cut - and- dried as once thought. The two hemispheres are in fact highly complementary. For example, language processing, once believed to be left - hemisphere- only, is now understood to take place in both hemispheres: the left side processes grammar and pronunciation while the right processes intonation.
What remains true is that t he right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa.
Take this test to find your dominant hemisphere. Do you agree with the result?
How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?
Watch this video and answer the questions:
1. How many years of our lives do we spend sleeping?
2.
After 2 weeks people with 6 hours of sleep showed similar reactions to
____________.
3. What did scientists name the cumulative effect of little sleep?
4.
What is the possible effect if sleep deprivation is over months to
years?
5. Do you always necessarily feel tired if sleep deprived?
6. What is the idea amount of sleep?
7. < 7 hours leads to _____% higher risk of death.
8. >7-8 hours leads to ______% risk of mortality.
What If You Stopped Sleeping?
Watch this video and write down
what would happen in your body if you stopped sleeping (give details)
Ecological footprint. Due on 20th April
Go to this website and measure your ecological footprint. Write down the things you are asked about.
Adolescent Brain Development
Read the text and answer the questions.
- What does recent research from the National Institute of Mental Health say about the teen brain?
- When do the greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for functions such as self-control, judgment, emotions, and organization occur ?
- What does mystifying behaviour mean?
- What types of behaviour do parents find mystifying in teens?
- What does mature mean?
- Explain the process called pruning?
- How can teens wire and sculpt their brains?
- What does research say about alcohol and the teen brain?
- What does misperceiving mean?
- Why do adolescents often fail to heed adults' warnings?
Homework. Unit 9.
Choose one of these videos, look up the words of the vocabulary list and answer the questions. You can use the subtitles and transcript.
The missing link to renewable energy
Vocabulary:
Intermittency
Enabling
Heterodoxies
Electroplating
Grid-level storage
Paradigm
Axiomatically
Abundant
Recedes
Electrometallurgy
Workhorse
Bistro
Questions:
1. In the very
beginning, what does he say a battery could solve?
2. Who invented the
first battery and how does the presenter describe it?
3. Why does he say
that certain parts of the periodic table must be axiomatically off-limits?
4. What does he say is
the economic miracle of modern electrometallurgy?
5. Describe the new
type of battery that the presenter wanted to create.
6. Who built the first
liquid metal battery?
7. Describe the
batteries they (LMBC) make today and the ones they hope to make in the future.
8. What does he say the liquid metal battery
story is a blueprint for, and why?
Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability. IKEA example
Vocabulary:
Scarcity
Blueprint
Impact
Yields
Standards
Codes of conduct
Audit
Discerning
Luxury
Questions:
1. What did he say was
the issue with 3 billion people joining the global middle class?
2. What does he say
about six degrees centigrade and what does he give us as a point of comparison?
3. What are the 3
reasons he gives for making sustainability go from a nice-to-do a must-do?
4. What is the name of
IKEA’s business strategy for sustainability?
5. What was the main
problem people had with sustainability in the past?
6. What was his
argument for LED bulbs versus incandescent? Give the details and numbers he
provided.
7. Explain the Better
Cotton Initiative.
8. Describe IKEA’s
renewable energy situation.
9. What can a business
do today to actually use total value chain to support a better quality of life
and protect children’s rights?
source
Vaccines
1. Write the name of the six different types of vaccines and breifly describe the mechanism used to create it.
2. Create, at least, one vaccine in this virtual laboratory and explain the process (step by step) in your notebook.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/making-vaccines.html
2. Create, at least, one vaccine in this virtual laboratory and explain the process (step by step) in your notebook.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/making-vaccines.html
Unit 2: Pyramid
Nutrients and diet
1. Draw a big pyramid like the model (without the sentences).
2. Cut out the photographs of different foods (or draw them or copy the names) and paste them in the
correct place on the pyramid according to your diet.
Second option: Build your pyramid using this online tool.
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