2. and your BRAIN

3. Did you know??? The brain is the consistency of soft butter or Jello! Your brain is a muscle and you can actually burn calories when you think?* *Just THINK, you can trim up when studying for a test. How cool is that!

4. Did you ever really stop to wonder what’s going on in your brain?

5. YOUR BRAIN What can we observe?

6. YOUR BRAIN LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE has two halves

7. Left:Right: Sequential Simultaneous Brain Functions

8. Left:Right: Sequential Simultaneous Brain Functions Likes to see things In order, one thing At a time Likes to see everything all at once

9. Look at these letters: REDOR What’s going on in your brain right now? Does the word make sense?

10. Maybe it’s because the words are out of

11. ORDER REDOR

12. Look at this face

13. Now try to REMEMBER the face.

14. Are you imagining just the nose? Or ONE of the eyes? Only the mouth?

15. Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once?? Which side of the brain do you think you are using?

16. Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once?? Which side of the brain do you think you are using?

17. Left:Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Brain Functions Ideas, thoughts, reflections. Things that actually ARE. What we see.

18. What do you actually see?

19. What do you know?

20. Left:Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional Brain Functions Based on facts Based on feelings

21. Look at this picture and notice what your first thoughts were

23. Did the face look sort of ? Which side of your brain do you think was REACTING?

24. Brain Functions Left:Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional Hears text Feels context

25. When we say something, our left brain hears the sounds but our right brain puts the sounds in context or, puts the words together with the picture. So the same words can have different meaning depending on the picture. For example…

28. The right hemisphere is the picture; The left hemisphere is the thousand words. Photo credit: vaxine

29. YOUR BRAIN IS CONTRALATERAL LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE

30. YOUR BRAIN IS CONTRALATERAL LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE Both sides work together. Did you know…

31. The left side controls the right

32. and the right side controls the left

33. Raise your right hand.

34. Which side of your brain do you think you were using?

35. Tap your left foot.

36. Right or left brain ??

37. Who do we probably consider to be the person with the smartest left brain in history?

38. Albert Einstein

39. Have you ever heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc ? 2

40. Well, it all started with Einstein imagining what he would see if…. 2

41. he were riding on a beam of light!

42. Why talk about brains in art??

43. Art is good for your brain

44. Art will help you to use your whole brain and make you smarter

45. Think of art as creative

48. where your brain might take you!

49. Some elements in some of the images were used from Clker.com