1. Left Brain, Right Brain…Your Brain?
Take a Side!
Left Brain, Right Brain…Your Brain?

2. Reviewing Why We’re Here.
The Freshman Academy class is to provide a foundation for our success at Reagan High School.
This is important, because our school is an International Baccalaureate School.

3. The IB’s Mission Statement
Let’s take a look at the back of our classroom.

4. MYP PROGRAMME MODEL DIAGRAM

5. Reviewing International Baccalaureate Concepts
Area of Interaction: There are four listed in the previous slide, all of them falling under Approaches to Learning.
The four Areas of Interaction are:
Community and Service
Health and Social Education
Environment
Human Ingenuity

6. This Unit
Our current unit on education seeks to answer this question: How do I Learn?
On the Areas of Interaction, this falls under Health and Social Education.

8. Visual and Written “Test”
Which way is the figure spinning?

9. LBRB
Our brains, just like everything else in the human body, consist of two halves.
A big fold down the middle divides the brain into separate left and right sides, with the only connection being a thick nerve cable, called the corpus callosum.

10. The whole left side of our body is "wired" into the right brain and vice versa.
That means that all the sensory input from the left body is entered into the right brain, and the right brain controls all the motor output of the left body.

11. One side of the brain is usually dominant over the other.
It’s generally thought that being left-dominant means being practical, focused and organized.
It’s then thought that being right dominant means being creative, spontaneous, and unorganized.

12. Left Brain
“The left hemisphere is the logical side, dealing with speech, reading, writing, details, facts, math and science and rational, literal, practical analysis.”

13. Right Brain
“The right hemisphere is portrayed as dealing with the intuitive, creative side of life, with spatial perception, symbols and images, face recognition, imagination, beliefs and fantasy.”

14. Left Brain  
Right Brain
Logical
Random   
Sequential   
Intuitive
Rational
Holistic Synthesizing
Analytical
Subjective
Objective
Looks at wholes
Looks at parts

15. Most individuals have a preference for one or the other
Most individuals have a preference for one or the other. However, some people are equally good at using both sides.
Schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain ones.
Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.

16. Vocab Words moral Hemisphere Signals Intriguing dichotomy Nerve
Perspective
Disconnecte
Analysis
Fundamental
cognition
Emulate
Transforming
logical,
sequential
Perceptions
linear,
Synthesized
Marginalize
Spatial
Atrophied
Manga
Concepts
Outsourced
moral
cheek-by-jowl
icon
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17. ARTICLE QUESTIONS
a. What are the main roles of the left and right hemispheres of the brain?
b. How does the brain use both halves in conjunction?
c. Why has left-brain thinking been favored historically?
d. Why, according to the author, is this the “Age of the Right Brain”?
f. What does it mean to “think outside the box"?
g. What are the strengths and weaknesses of right-brain and left-brain thinking?

18. Quote by Dr. Perry
“Our educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.”