
The Brain
Levels 1 to 4

NZC Achievement Objectives

Te Mātauranga o Aotearoa
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Learning Intentions

Integration Ideas
Learning Intentions are from the Ministry of Education
Integration ideas are from the Ministry of Education
Levels 1 to 4
Developing movement concepts and motor skills in the environment
Technology: Share ideas about the ways in which familiar technologies affect their lives eg. the use and disposal of plastics

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Joe gets your body moving today with some fun activation activities, and then will take you through a short mindfulness exercise - you'll feel great after this!
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Activate Your Body and Calm Your Mind
Whenua Iti Outdoors
Joe gets your body moving today with some fun activation activities, and then will take you through a short mindfulness exercise - you'll feel great after this!

Using senses such as sight, touch and taste, your brain is capable of making amazing calculations that let us respond to the world around us. Teach students more about this with our fun brain activities and lesson plan.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
Brain & Senses
Science Kids
Using senses such as sight, touch and taste, your brain is capable of making amazing calculations that let us respond to the world around us. Teach students more about this with our fun brain activities and lesson plan.

Pseudoscience is something that sounds scientific but isn’t actually based on solid evidence. Advertisments often use pseudoscience, which can be misleading. To be able to tell the difference between real science and pseudoscience, we need to think like scientists.
Level
3
Type
Book
Connected 2015 Level 3: ‘Pseudoscience’
Ministry of Education NZ
Pseudoscience is something that sounds scientific but isn’t actually based on solid evidence. Advertisments often use pseudoscience, which can be misleading. To be able to tell the difference between real science and pseudoscience, we need to think like scientists.

Dr Melanie Cheung is a neurobiologist. She studies the roro (brain), collecting and analysing data about how it works and what can go wrong. She also studies the use of tikanga (Māori customary practices) in the modern science world.
Level
4
Type
Book
Connected 2015 Level 4: ‘Reconnecting the Brain’
Ministry of Education NZ
Dr Melanie Cheung is a neurobiologist. She studies the roro (brain), collecting and analysing data about how it works and what can go wrong. She also studies the use of tikanga (Māori customary practices) in the modern science world.

Does your body have a dominant side? Test yourself with a variety of challenges to find your dominant eye, hand and foot.
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Dominant Side
Science Kids
Does your body have a dominant side? Test yourself with a variety of challenges to find your dominant eye, hand and foot.

Our eyes are incredible machines, but how do they work? Suzy asks the question while on the grounds of parliament, in NZ. She visits the NZ Film Archive and takes a good look things there!
Level
1-2
Type
Video
Eye: How does the eye work?
Suzy's World
Our eyes are incredible machines, but how do they work? Suzy asks the question while on the grounds of parliament, in NZ. She visits the NZ Film Archive and takes a good look things there!

Have you ever wondered which animal might be the smartest, and how we might measure intelligence? Make this memory game at home and see how your memory compares to your friends!
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Make your own animal puzzle
Nanogirl
Have you ever wondered which animal might be the smartest, and how we might measure intelligence? Make this memory game at home and see how your memory compares to your friends!

Mindfulness is such an important skill to learn for children in an increasingly hectic and sometimes stressful world. Joe takes you through some simple exercises you can do to be still in the moment and start your mindfulness practice.
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Mindfulness
Whenua Iti Outdoors
Mindfulness is such an important skill to learn for children in an increasingly hectic and sometimes stressful world. Joe takes you through some simple exercises you can do to be still in the moment and start your mindfulness practice.

Next time you start staring at yourself in the mirror, try a little science at the same time. Here’s an experiment that shows how your brain works with what you see
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Mirror, Mirror
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Next time you start staring at yourself in the mirror, try a little science at the same time. Here’s an experiment that shows how your brain works with what you see

Because light is so easily observable, we can readily investigate its sources and patterns (including reflection and absorption) and consider how we receive and process the sensory information of light and colour.
Level
3-4
Type
Activity Book
Seeing Colours: The Spectrum, the Eye, and the Brain
Ministry of Education NZ
Because light is so easily observable, we can readily investigate its sources and patterns (including reflection and absorption) and consider how we receive and process the sensory information of light and colour.

When we look at people, we look for patterns. We look to see how much someone’s left side looks like his or her right side. How much one side of a pattern or shape is like another side is called symmetry (SIMM-eh-tree).
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Symmetry Sampler
Bill Nye The Science Guy
When we look at people, we look for patterns. We look to see how much someone’s left side looks like his or her right side. How much one side of a pattern or shape is like another side is called symmetry (SIMM-eh-tree).

In this episode Dr Michelle Dickinson will cover the basic anatomy and function of the human brain, carry out a hands-on experiment and talk about blackouts and brain injuries with Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains from Brain Research New Zealand.
Level
3-4
Type
Video
The Human Brain: BREAKING IT DOWN Episode 2
Nanogirl
In this episode Dr Michelle Dickinson will cover the basic anatomy and function of the human brain, carry out a hands-on experiment and talk about blackouts and brain injuries with Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains from Brain Research New Zealand.

We need to eyes to be able to use binoculars and to see through both lenses of a pair of glasses, but what's the real reason you have two eyes?
Level
1-2
Type
Video
Two Eyes: Why do we have two eyes?
Suzy's World
We need to eyes to be able to use binoculars and to see through both lenses of a pair of glasses, but what's the real reason you have two eyes?