Personal Development

Quarter 1 – Module 12:

Ways to Improve Brain
Functions
Personal Development
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module
First Edition, 2020

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Personal Development
Quarter 1 – Module12:
Ways to Improve Brain
Functions

This instructional material was collaboratively

developed and reviewed by educators from public and private
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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Personal Development - Grade 11/12 Alternative Delivery

Mode (ADM) Module 12: The Ways to Improve the Brain Functions!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or
facilitator, in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Personal Development - Grade 11/12 Alternative Delivery

Mode (ADM) Module 12: Ways to Improve Brain Functions!

The hand is one of the most symbolized parts of the human body. It is often
used to depict skill, action, and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create,
and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you, as a
learner, are capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!

This module is designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You are expected to
process your own learning with the guide provided in each part of the module.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
new lesson. If you get all correct answers
(100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as
a story, a song, a poem, a problem opener,
an activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

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 What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank
sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or
skill into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be

given to you to enrich your knowledge or
skill of the lesson learned. This also helps
in the retention of learned concepts.

This contains the correct answers to all

Answer Key the activities in the module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing

this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the
module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instructions carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and in checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know

This module is designed and written to help you understand the powers of the
mind. The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students.
The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order
in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now
using.

The module focuses on the powers of the mind.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Explore ways on how to improve brain functions for personal development

What I Know

Directions: Write True if you agree with the statement, and False if you do
not.
_____1. Regular exercise would benefit your body except your brain.
_____2. For your brain to function properly, you should get enough sleep.
_____3. Meditation could extend your cognitive longevity.
_____4. Proper nutrition is good for your brain.
_____5. Getting sunlight is good for your brain
_____6. Drinking coffee can activate your brain cells.
_____7. Playing board games can enhance your brain power.
_____8. Smoking can cause brain damage.
_____9. Having a good relationship with your friends will not affect your
mental health.
_____10. Listening to classical music can improve brain functions.
_____11. In doing some tasks, it is important to assess your mental focus.
_____12. Eliminating distractions do not affect your mental focus.
_____13. Deep breathing exercise improves your brain functions.
_____14. Worrying and overthinking can improve your mental focus.
_____15. Doing mind mapping can help you brainstorm thoughts and ideas.
 Lesson
Ways to Improve Brain
6.2 Functions

Understanding the different parts of the brain, processes, and functions may
help you in improving your thoughts, behavior, and feelings. This time you may be
able to explore ways on how to improve your brain functions for personal
development.

As you demonstrate your personal ways to fully develop your brain functions,
this module will support your own personal development. This time, we will focus on
enhancing and balancing your mental abilities.

What’s In

Now let us have a review of the previous lesson. Draw a STAR if the words
are parts of the brain. Draw a HAPPY FACE if the words are functions of the brain.
Put your answer in the space provided.

1. Processing information 6. Regulates emotion

2. Hindbrain 7. Motor movement

3. Cerebrum 8. Organize information

4. Thalamus 9. Frontal Lobe

5. Brain stem 10. Cerebral cortex

Notes to the Teacher

Guide the learner in answering the task,

explain thoroughly.
You can elaborate the topic if necessary.
 What’s New

Directions: DO NOT shade the word with the name of the color it spells out,
instead, use a different color. After you finished coloring all the words, try to tell the
color that you used to shade the word. Practice doing so on your own for one minute
before you invite someone to tell the color shaded on each word.

After doing the activity what have you realized?

What do you think are the ways to improve your brain functions?
What is the best way for you to improve your brain functions?
 What is It

Oftentimes, you tend to forget what to say or totally forget an important date.
For a student like you, forgetting about a task assigned to you can lead to cramming,
or worse, a failing grade. Our brain is responsible for remembering and recalling the
past, but it is our responsibility to keep our brain healthy and functioning well.

Ways to Improve your Brain Function for Personal Development

The brain is responsible for our way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Still,
it is important to observe and exercise ways to improve your brain functions as a
maturing adolescent. Here are some useful tips to improve your brain power that will
help you activate your brain functions for personal development:

1. Exercise- benefits your brain health and cognition, improves your memory
and even protects your brain from degeneration. Aerobic exercise is
particularly good for the brain. Activities that keep your blood pumping is good
for your heart and great for your brain.
2. Meditate- taking 10-15 minutes of meditation a day could help to extend your
cognitive longevity.
3. Sleep – enough sleep is required to consolidate memory learning. If you do
not get enough sleep, you will have a less healthy brain.
4. Food Intake- Just as the body needs fuel, so does the brain. Eat a brain-
boosting diet such as food rich in omega-3, antioxidants, amino acids, and
vitamin E. Eat more vegetables, limit calorie and saturated fat intake. Drink
green tea and wine, or grape juice in moderation.
5. Sunlight- sunlight and exercise can sometimes go hand in hand. Getting too
little sunlight is not good for your brain. Higher levels of vitamin D in your
system allow you to perform better and can even slow down the aging of your
brain.
6. Good Relationship- make time for friends. Building a strong support system
around you will enable you to stay healthy mentally and psychologically over
the long term. This is called the ultimate brain booster.
7. Do not smoke- smoking can cause brain disorder called dementia. Those
people who smoked more than two packs of cigarettes a day had twice the rate
of dementia when they were older.
8. Be creative - when something is broken, find creative repair solutions using
common objects.
9. Classical music- listening to calm music can improve to brain functions.
10. Drink coffee- drinking coffee in moderation increases your brain performance
and speed and will even boost your intelligence, including your reaction time
and reasoning.
 After learning some tips that could help you empower your brain, it is also
important to know tips on how to improve your mental focus to achieve your goal.
Here are some useful tips that you may consider:

How to Improve your mental focus?

1. Assessment- - begin by assessing just how strong your mental focus is at the
present moment before you start working.
2. Eliminate distractions- request to be left alone and set aside a specific time
and place, seek out a calm or quite place where you can work undisturbed.
The library, a private room in your house, or even a quiet coffee shop might
all be good spots to try.
3. Limit focus- Part of improving your mental focus is all about making the most
of the resources you have available. Stop multitasking and instead give your
full attention to one thing at a time.
4. Live in the moment- It is hard to stay mentally focused when you are
ruminating about the past, worrying about the future, or tuned out of the
present moment for some other reason. It may take some time but work on
learning to truly live in the moment. You cannot change the past and the
future has not happened yet, but what you do today can help you avoid
repeating past mistakes and pave a path for a more successful future.
5. Practice mindfulness- Practicing mindfulness can involve learning how to
meditate, but it can also be as simple as trying a quick and easy deep
breathing exercise.
6. Take a short break- Shift your attention to something unrelated to the task
at hand, even if it is only for a few moments. These short moments might mean
that you are able to keep your mental focus sharp and your performance high
when you really need it.
7. Build your mental focus- it is not something that will happen overnight. it
requires plenty of time and practice to strengthen concentration skills. By
building your mental focus, you will find that you are able to accomplish more
and concentrate on the things in life that truly bring you success, joy, and
satisfaction.
8. Brainstorm- A mind map is an easy way to brainstorm thoughts organically
without worrying about order and structure. It allows you to visually represent
the structure your ideas to help with analysis and recall.
 What’s More

You are going to use both your right and left hands.

Directions: Draw an infinity eight vertically using your right hand in the second
column and your left hand in the first column. Practice writing in 1 minute for each
hand.

After doing the activity what have you realized?

Is the activity helpful in improving your brain functions for personal development?
 What I Have Learned

Now, after knowing the tips on how to improve your brain functions and
mental focus, try to answer the following exercises.
A. Directions: Write IBF (Improve Brain Function) if the statement is for
enhancement of brain function or IMF (Improved Mental Focus) if the
statement is for improving mental focus.
1. Maria finds time to exercise daily.
2. Pedro sees to it that he takes vitamins, and eat fruits and vegetables.
3. The students play board games during recess.
4. Section B students do their task quietly.
5. Rose stops worrying about the pandemic.

B. Directions. Choose the correct word in the right column to complete the
paragraph.

The brain functions can be improved by doing the Practicing

following; exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, proper attention
nutrition intake, getting ____1________ in your system allow you
Sunlight
to perform better and can even slow down the __2_____ of your
brain, meditation could extend ___3________ longevity, building Cognitive
a strong _____4____ system enable you to stay healthy mentally Support
and psychologically, ____5______can cause brain damage called
Smoking
dementia.
To improve your mental focus we should do the following; Distractions
asses your mental focus before starting anything, eliminate Mind map
_____6_______ by seeking out a calm ___7_______, limit your
Aging
focus, live in the moment, practice mindfulness, take a short
break by shifting your ____8_____ to a different task, build your Location
mental focus by_____9______, and doing ___10________ is an easy Library
way to brainstorm thoughts spontaneously without worrying Isolation
about order and structure.
 What I Can Do

Now let’s find out if you can apply what have been discussed earlier.

Directions: Plan ways on how to improve your brain functions using mind
mapping.

My Plan to Improve Brain Functions

for my Personal Development
 Assessment

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. The following are tips on how to enhance your brain power EXCEPT one.
A. Exercise
B. Meditate
C. Enough sleep
D. Limit focus

2. When do you assess your mental focus if you are going to do a task?
A. During the accomplishment of the task
B. After accomplishing the task
C. Before doing the task
D. All of the above

3. What activity requires you to take 10-15 minutes a day that could extend your
cognitive longevity?
A. Exercising
B. Meditating
C. Eating
D. Smoking

4. What useful tip improves your focus that allows you to visually structure your
ideas?
A. Mind mapping
B. Practice mindfulness
C. Limit your focus
D. Live in the moment

5. You requested your siblings to leave you alone in your room to finish your
assignment. What useful tip on improving focus did you apply?
A. Limit focus
B. Eliminate distractions
C. Practice mindfulness
D. Take a short break

6. When a person smokes more than two packs of cigarettes a day, what disease
could he get in his later life?
A. Pneumonia
B. Dementia
C. Cancer
D. Amnesia
7. What useful tip for improving mental focus does not happen overnight and
requires plenty of time and practice to strengthen concentration skills?
A. Building mental focus
B. Eliminating distractions
C. Taking short break
D. Brainstorming

8. What useful tip for improving your mental focus gives your full attention to
one thing?
A. Building mental focus
B. Eliminating distractions
C. Taking short break
D. Limiting focus

9. You need to be happy because people around you believe in your capacity.
What useful tip in improving your brain function did you apply?
A. Building strong connections
B. Practicing creativity
C. Listening to classical music
D. caffeine intake

10. According to research, what kind of music would help you improve your brain
functions?
A. Pop music
B. Classical music
C. Opera music
D. Reggae music

11. The following are reasons why it is important to improve your brain function
EXCEPT:
A. It can help you achieve your goal
B. It is necessary in life
C. It is for personal growth
D. It is a requirement

12. In doing multi-tasking you can finish all the tasks at the same time. What
useful tip in improving your mental focus had been violated?
A. Limit your focus
B. Live in the moment
C. Eliminate distractions
D. Practice mindfulness

13. You exerted much effort and you found ways how to solve such problem.
What tip on improving your brain function was observed?
A. Practice creative thinking
B. Listening to classical music
C. Build strong connections
D. Get some light
14. What useful tip in improving your mental focus involves learning how to
meditate?
A. Build your mental focus
B. Take a short break
C. Practice mindfulness
D. Limit your focus

15. What useful tip in improving your mental focus helps you accept the present,
forget the past, and embrace the future?
A. Live in the moment
B. Practice mindfulness
C. Take a short break
D. Limit your focus
 Additional Activities

To strengthen what you have learned from this module try doing these
activities. You can challenge your friends, siblings or anyone in your house.
Directions: Follow the instructions indicated in each item.

1. Come up with as many words as you can from the following letters. Use each
letter only once in each word. IRNAB

2. Finding colors. Rearrange all the letters to find the four colors mixed up below.
Hint: There is only one primary color.
RAIGET, ENOLYL, OVGOEN, LEWRE
3. Counting squares. Count the number of squares in the figure on the left. Hint:
Be sure to count the squares within the squares.
 Assessment Additional
1. D Activities
2. C 1. I, In, Ran, Rib,
3. B Rain,Nab, A,
4. A An, Air,Ban,
5. B Bar,Bin, Barn,
6. B
Bran, Brain
7. A
2. Green, Orange,
8. D
Violet, Yellow
9. A
3. 21 squares
10. B
11. D
12. A
13. A
14. C
15. B
What I Have What I Have What I Know
learned B. Learned A. 1. False
2. True
1. sunlight 1. EBF
3. True
2. aging 2. EBF
4. True
3. cognitive 3. EBF
5. True
4. support 4. IMF
6. True
5. smoking 5. IMF
7. True
6. distractions
8. True
7. location
9. False
8. attention
10.True
9. practicing
11.True
10.mind map
12.False
13.True
14.False
15.True
Answer Key
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