Your Fantastic Elastic Brain

Match the following

• Behind the forehead that helps you make plans and decisions.

• Hippocampus

• At the center of the brain and works like a file cabinet.

• Cerebellum

• Group of cells deep within your brain that controls your emotions.

• Cerebrum

• A small part at the back of the brain that helps your muscles coordinate your movement.

• Amygdala

• The largest part of the brain that helps you think and speak.

• Prefrontal Cortex

Your brain is the size of

• two feet

• one fist

• one foot

• two fists

Match the following

• To organize or put everything together.

• coordinate

• Something that is stretchy or flexible.

• elastic

• Someone who causes worry or pain.

• decade

• A period of ten years.

• civilization

• A society with its own way of life.

• tormentor

They are tiny brain cells that send messages to cells in the body telling them what to do.

• axioms

• dendrites

• neurons

• protons

This makes you YOU!

• muscles

• brain

• heart

• tendons