Flipping Your Lid!

Our hand can make a model of our brain.

• True

• False

What does your Wise Owl or prefrontal cortex do?

• Feel emotion

• Think before you act

• Memory saver

• All of the above

What does your hippocampus do?

• The part of the brain that makes smart decisions (thinking before acting),

• The part of the brain that feels emotion.

• The part of the brain that serves as the memory saver.

• All of the above

Your amygdala works by?

• Barking

• Thinking about your decisions

• Fight, flight or freeze

• Saving information to use later

What part of the brain is doing this? Running inside the house if there is a tornado.

• Prefrontal Cortex (Wise Owl)

• Hippocampus (Elephant)

• Amygdala (Guard Dog)

• None of the above

What does it mean to "flip your lid"?

• Lose control

• Going to sleep

• Getting hyper

• Feeling down

If you "flip your lid" what can you do to calm yourself down so your wise owl can work? READ ALL THE CHOICES BEFORE ANSWERING!

• Take slow deep breaths

• Pay attention to what you can see, smell, hear and taste

• Talk to someone about how you are feeling

• Any of these will work!

What helps YOU calm down the most when you "flip your lid"?

• Draw or write

• Talk to someone

• Take a break

• Something else