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Things we will address:. Nutrition Sleep Vision. Stress Exercise. Goals: Why should I care?. Take care of you – take care of your students. Focus on raising kids Effect: raise test scores Cutting edge information and strategies. Our Brain Needs…. 1. Oxygen 2. Glucose 3. Water.
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Things we will address: • Nutrition • Sleep • Vision • Stress • Exercise
Goals: Why should I care? • Take care of you – take care of your students. • Focus on raising kids • Effect: raise test scores • Cutting edge information and strategies
Our Brain Needs… 1. Oxygen 2. Glucose 3. Water
Use of artificial neurotransmitters, i.e. caffeine, during the first twelve years may interfere with the nervous system’s ability to naturally make them for the rest of a person’s life!!
...Refined Sugar, everything of food value has been removed except the carbohydrates-pure calories, without vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, enzymes or any of the other elements that make up food
Tell a relevant story • Show a relevant video • Do a relevant activity
Sleep Findings Stryker 2001 Sleeping after learning grows TWICE as many neural dendrites as just learning the material Recommendations:
Average daily sleep needs: Preschoolers 3-5 years: 11-13 hours 1st - 8th Graders (5-12 years) 9-11 hours Adolescents &Teens 8.5-9.5 hours Adults On average: 7-9 hours
Sleep Patterns for the Adolescent Brain > 50% of high school students in REM sleep after 3 minutes, should take 90 minutes to get there Brown U. study
Key Sources • www.brainrules.net • http://nerds.unl.edu/brain
Please tell us some of the recommendations you have learned today. For more information, please contact: Dr. Ron Bonnstetter rjb@unl.edu Kirsten Smith ksmith@lps.org Cindy Larson-Miller clarson-miller@unl.edu Sara Yendra syendra2@unl.edu