Part 1 in a three-part series about the brain. Slide notes available in Your Incredible Brain workshop package.

1. Your Incredible Brain

2. How does the brain work?

3. A hundred years ago, the only way scientists could
examine the human brain was with a corpse.

4.  Today, scientists can look inside a
living brain and watch it work.

5. What’s going on in there?

6. What’s going on in there?
 When you think, connections form in
your brain

7. The connections in your brain are like pathways

8. Pathways in the brain = learning

10. Your brain changes as you learn
+ =
For example, if a man drives a taxi for many years

11. TAXI
+ =
Taxi driver brain!!
After a few years, the “finding your way around” part of his
brain will be much bigger than it was before!!

12. Brains change
as you use them!
Watch this video to see how much a brain can
change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSu9HGnlMV0
Pause to discuss.

13. Habits shape your brain
So choose your mental habits

14. Pathways in the brain = learning

15. Or ‘unlearn’ something. Let the path grow over…

16. Choose your habits
or change your habits

17. Choose your habits
Change your brain!

18. You can break new ground
and create CHANGE!
Repeat, repeat, repeat = new pathways

19. Break negative habits
Or add some helpful ones