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    How Does The Brain Work?: For Grades 3-5 Fact Sheet

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    The document summarizes how the brain works during a simple walk. It explains that the brain receives sensory information through nerves, processes it in different brain regions, and sends signals back through nerves to control muscles and senses. It also notes that the brain helps with tasks like seeing, smelling, hearing, and moving during a walk. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of keeping the brain healthy through sleep, nutrition, and mental stimulation.

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    How Does The Brain Work?: For Grades 3-5 Fact Sheet

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    The document summarizes how the brain works during a simple walk. It explains that the brain receives sensory information through nerves, processes it in different brain regions, and sends signals back through nerves to control muscles and senses. It also notes that the brain helps with tasks like seeing, smelling, hearing, and moving during a walk. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of keeping the brain healthy through sleep, nutrition, and mental stimulation.

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    The document summarizes how the brain works during a simple walk. It explains that the brain receives sensory information through nerves, processes it in different brain regions, and sends signals back through nerves to control muscles and senses. It also notes that the brain helps with tasks like seeing, smelling, hearing, and moving during a walk. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of keeping the brain healthy through sleep, nutrition, and mental stimulation.

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    How Does The Brain Work?: For Grades 3-5 Fact Sheet

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    The document summarizes how the brain works during a simple walk. It explains that the brain receives sensory information through nerves, processes it in different brain regions, and sends signals back through nerves to control muscles and senses. It also notes that the brain helps with tasks like seeing, smelling, hearing, and moving during a walk. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of keeping the brain healthy through sleep, nutrition, and mental stimulation.

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    Fact Sheet For Grades 3-5

    How does the


    brain work? Let’s take a look at how our brains help us take a
    walk. When you are walking, your brain has a big
    By Elizabeth A. Weaver II
    job. First, it helps you move your muscles. It also
    helps you see where you are going and allows you
    Have you ever wondered what is inside your head? to smell both good and bad smells along your
    It’s your brain! You may have heard that the brain way.
    is one of your most important body parts.
    Sometimes teachers tell you to use your brain to What if you’re walking in the sun and begin to feel
    think about a homework assignment or solve a hot? Your brain senses that you need to cool
    math problem. Your brain is what allows you to down, and you might want to remove a jacket.
    think, learn, and solve problems. It also allows you Finally, your walk comes to an end because you
    to learn how to solve a problem one day and hear your mom or dad calling you back home. You
    remember how to solve it the next day. When you can hear their voices because of your brain! Can
    memorize a multiplication table, your brain is you believe how important your brain is to take a
    doing all the work. What you may not know, simple walk? It controls the five main senses:
    however, is that your brain does a lot more than seeing, smelling, touching, tasting, and hearing.
    memorize facts. It also helps you explore the But how does such a small body part do so much?
    world around you.

    Explore the brain with us. Visit Dana.org


    Fact Sheet For Grades 3-5

    How does the brain work?

    Here’s how it works: Your body collects Keeping your brain healthy means getting plenty
    information, like sights and sounds, from the of sleep, studying, and eating your fruits and
    outside world through the five senses. This vegetables! Finally, it is important to know that
    information travels to the brain along pathways your brain never stops learning and changing.
    called nerves. When you think about information Just like a muscle, if you work it out, your brain
    traveling along nerves, imagine cars traveling can grow and stay healthy.
    along highways. Just like cars travel to and from
    their destinations on highways, information
    travels to and from your brain and other parts of
    your body along nerves. Without your nerves, the
    information would not know how to get to your
    brain.

    Once the messages reach your brain, your brain


    begins to process them. The brain has many
    different parts that control very specific things
    like memory or your muscles. Many areas work
    together and communicate with each other to
    make sense of the incoming messages. The
    brain also sends information back to the
    nerves. For instance, in the earlier example of a
    walk, your brain receives a message from your
    nerves that you are too hot and need to cool The messages
    down. Your brain will process this information going to and from
    and will send a message back down another set your brain travel
    of nerves that tell you to remove your jacket. along nerves like
    cars travel along
    Brains, just like other body parts, can get hurt
    and need to stay healthy. It is important to highways.
    protect your brain by wearing seat belts,
    helmets, and being careful not to hit your head.

    Explore the brain with us. Visit Dana.org

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