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THE TEEN BRAIN PROJECT

OVERVIEW:

Because adolescence is a time of great change and development, students explored the guiding question: What is a healthy teen brain? They learned about:

  • How the teen brain is changing and developing

  • How the brain affects identity, personality, and emotions

  • Mental health challenges

  • How technology impacts a teen brain

  • What habits contribute to a healthy brain

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LEARNING GOALS:

  • Read and respond to a variety of informational texts

  • Represent information in a creative and interesting way

  • Prepare and present a workshop for parents


PRODUCTS AND DELIVERABLES:

  • An interactive and informational “accordion book” that demonstrates craftsmanship, creative design, and attention to detail

  • A workshop for parents of teens to teach them everything they need to know about what is going on inside their teen's brain

SPECIFIC LITERACY STRATEGIES USED:

1. Annotated Reading of an Expository Academic Text: The purpose of this activity was for students to be able to comprehend and extract relevant information from a text about specific mental heath challenges. For each section, students had to circle key terms, underline facts that scientists have learned from research, write a 10 word summary, and ask a question, make a connection or draw a picture. Use the example to adapt to any expository academic text.

 

2. Jigsaw and Venn Diagram Activity: The purpose of this activity was for students to understand a portion of a challenging scientific text and recognize that mental health challenges are caused by a combination of many different factors. There were three different causes that students researched further: biolgical causes, genetic causes and psychological/environmental causes. Each student was assigned one of the three causes and read a short text on their own. They also had to find three vocabulary words to define and five important facts from the text. Then, they met in a group of three, where each student had read about a different cause and together, sorted vocabulary words into a venn diagram.

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