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What’s Going On Up There?

What’s Going On Up There?. Significant Brain Development Research. What’s Going On Up There?. Bodies -- cells. Brains -- connections between cells. What’s Going On Up There?. Brain has ~100 billion cells at birth Like little towns with no roads Needs roads or “pathways” between cells.

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What’s Going On Up There?

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  1. What’s Going On Up There? Significant Brain Development Research

  2. What’s Going On Up There? Bodies -- cells Brains -- connections between cells

  3. What’s Going On Up There? • Brain has ~100 billion cells at birth • Like little towns with no roads • Needs roads or “pathways” between cells.

  4. What’s Going On Up There? Pathway development: • Before birth • Sensory stimulation • Electrical impulses • Pathways • Repetition = strength Image from www.kiddsmart.com/neuron%20graph.htm

  5. What’s Going On Up There? Make brain pathways! See Touch Hear Taste Smell

  6. What’s Going On Up There? Unstimumlated brains: • Few pathways • Pruning • Pathway development slows “Brain Cell Connections” image from www.acceleratedlearning.com/preschool/concept.htm

  7. What’s Going On Up There? Window of opportunity: • Build brain pathways: • Ages birth - 5 • Sensory activities • Repetition

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