Time Management

Dr. Brain came in last Friday to talk about time management. He started by showing a simple model of the brain and talking about grey matter and the two hemispheres of the brain. We talked about how the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and vice versa. 

Time Management
Dr. Brain discussed why it was important to understand time as the students get older. We talked about how time is consistent, even though our perceptions of time may be different. We got to experience how one minute can seem to "fly by" or "drag on" depending on the activity!

"Minute to Win it!"
We started off by competing in two different "Minute to Win it" challenges. Tables selected one team member to participate in the challenge. The first challenge was called "Suck it Up" and students had to use a straw to try and suck up Skittles, moving them one-by-one from one bowl to another. The video footage is hilarious! The second challenge was called "Scoop it Up" and students had to use a spoon (with the handle side in their mouth) to transfer 6 ping pong balls from one bowl to another without using their hands!

Ab Exercises
While the "Minute to Win it" challenges seemed to fly by, the ab exercise seemed to last forever! The minute definitely didn't feel the same. But as we all know, a minute is 60 seconds, no matter how it's spent! There is some good video footage of this as well! Many students gave up before the minute was over!

Five Minute Challenge
We wanted to show students the difference between one minute and five minutes. Students worked in teams to put together a human anatomy brain model. This model includes 31 pieces including the cerebellum, frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes, corpus callosum, brain stem, hippocampus, ventricles, insula, corpus striatum, internal capsule, and lentiform nucleus! Needless to say, students did not meet the challenge, but they worked hard and worked cooperatively on it! We will try this challenge again, giving students 10 minutes!

Materials
We found some GREAT visual sand timers at Lakeshore Learning in Matthews: http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/

You can see some snippets from Lesson 5 by visiting the following link: https://youtu.be/3pszB9hDzdQ