Our brain is such an important part of our human body, I pray that I did it justice with trying to convey this to my Beloveds. When you have a great brain scientists like Dr. Benjamin Carson for inspiration, it is hard to not get excited about learning about this fascinating organ.
Our local science museum has a nice interactive body exhibit with a huge brain in the middle that shows videos about the function of the brains.
I used file folders and felt to create a brain function puzzle. The colors of each part of the brain were chosen based on the available paper and felt in my home. I did not purchase anything new for this activity. A paper brain and labels is the control card. It can be flipped open to check the child's work. I glued felt to the background so that brain would not slide off and I made felt pockets for the cards. The cards are available free for download. I also share a website at the end where you can download a free paper brain puzzle.
For Lil A we worked on vocabulary and matching the parts of the brain.
A good way to start is to have your child match felt
Lil A did an awesome job of reconstructing the brain.
Z Man and S Man constructed the brain from memory.
Many ways to use the card
More Brain Activities
The plan is to complete the body as we work through
We also visited Vanderbilt University
Brain Exhibit
Noor Janan's Link ups:
Living Montessori Now-
Montessori Monday
Noor Janan's Links:
Download Noor Janan's
Brain Function cards
Brain hat we used
Ellen Mc Henry's
brain hat
Crafty Classroom's
brain puzzle .
First Human Body Book
Melissa & Doug
Body Puzzle
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #331201; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">This is part of our mini unit studies as we go through the alphabet for our <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/p/abc-of-quran-printables.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">ABC of the Quran</a> adventure. Letter B is represented by <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/10/b-is-for-boats-buoyancy-ibn-battuta.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Boat</a>, <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/10/ball-sort-ordinal-numbers.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Ball</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #331201; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">, <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/10/b-is-for-buttons-fall-fun.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Button</a>, <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/11/butterfly.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Butterfly</a>, <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/11/lil-is-ballerina.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Ballerina</a>, <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/12/bridge-work.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Bridge</a>, <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/11/b-is-for-brain.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Brain</a> & the Quran B is for <a href="http://noorjanan.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-worry-about-thing.html" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #ff7ba7; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Bird</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #331201; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">which tells the story of how God showed Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) His Power by using birds.</span></div>
I loved how in depth you went with this and all the different activities you all did. It's such a great feeling to see other moms homeschool with more than just a worksheet/book MashaAllah! I'm sharing your activity on the HMM page inshaAllah!!
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Wow! What amazing activities - such a memorable unit study! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful printable and for the links to other resources as well. I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this post! I don't homeschool but we do a lot of fun education-based play activities. This is one I would definitely do with my children! I absolutely love the felt brain puzzle with function labels!
ReplyDeleteWow this was fabulous! I learned a lot just reading your activities! This was very inspiring!
ReplyDeleteit is very helpful in study time.
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