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Brain Stimulating Activity
Julie Robillard, a PhD candidate in neuroscience has won the our first-ever activity contest for her fun, exciting “good for your brain” race.
As part of the activity, students are separated into small groups and are given a stack of images. They are then asked to separate the images into two piles – one of images that are “good for your brain” and one for those that are “bad for your brain”. The race is timed, and the first group to complete the task wins. Let’s Talk Science volunteers go over the winning group’s answers and invite other groups to compare and discuss the answers.
“I recently did this activity with a Grade 3 class. When the race was announced and the rules were described, you could see the kids were excited by the idea of a competition and were eager to get started,” says Julie. “Once the race was on, the kids were totally absorbed by the task. We went over the answers of the fastest group one at a time. Some were fairly obvious – junk food, sleep – but others definitely led to discussions. The game also sparked a very interesting debate over the value of videogames.”
The activity was themed around the brain in recognition of Brain Awareness Week (March 15 – 21 this year), as UBC’s Let’s Talk Science volunteers work with the Brain Research Centre to carry out neuroscience-themed classroom visits each spring.
For more information on Brain Awareness, please visit here.
Britannia Science Fair a success!
February 5, 2010
Over the past couple months, a brigade of graduate and undergraduate mentors have been working with high school students at Britannia Secondary. Volunteers helped guide students with their science fair projects with the program ending last Friday with the school science fair where students showcased some very impressive projects!
As well, congratulations to those mentors whose students will be advancing to the Vancouver District Science Fair next month! We all wish them good luck!
For pictures of the Britannia Fair and judging, please visit here
For pictures of a developing science fair project involving water quality along the Burrard inlet, check out pictures from Marius's mentorpod .
A big thank you to our army of volunteers taking part!!
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Julie Robillard, a PhD candidate in neuroscience has won the our first-ever activity contest for her fun, exciting “good for your brain” race.
As part of the activity, students are separated into small groups and are given a stack of images. They are then asked to separate the images into two piles – one of images that are “good for your brain” and one for those that are “bad for your brain”. The race is timed, and the first group to complete the task wins. Let’s Talk Science volunteers go over the winning group’s answers and invite other groups to compare and discuss the answers.
“I recently did this activity with a Grade 3 class. When the race was announced and the rules were described, you could see the kids were excited by the idea of a competition and were eager to get started,” says Julie. “Once the race was on, the kids were totally absorbed by the task. We went over the answers of the fastest group one at a time. Some were fairly obvious – junk food, sleep – but others definitely led to discussions. The game also sparked a very interesting debate over the value of videogames.”
The activity was themed around the brain in recognition of Brain Awareness Week (March 15 – 21 this year), as UBC’s Let’s Talk Science volunteers work with the Brain Research Centre to carry out neuroscience-themed classroom visits each spring.
For more information on Brain Awareness, please visit here.
Britannia Science Fair a success!
February 5, 2010
Over the past couple months, a brigade of graduate and undergraduate mentors have been working with high school students at Britannia Secondary. Volunteers helped guide students with their science fair projects with the program ending last Friday with the school science fair where students showcased some very impressive projects!
As well, congratulations to those mentors whose students will be advancing to the Vancouver District Science Fair next month! We all wish them good luck!
For pictures of the Britannia Fair and judging, please visit here
For pictures of a developing science fair project involving water quality along the Burrard inlet, check out pictures from Marius's mentorpod .
A big thank you to our army of volunteers taking part!!
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