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WorksheetsFlipping Your Lid!
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
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
Which part of the brain is doing this? Telling someone a story about what happened on summer vacation.
Prefrontal Cortex (Wise Owl)
Hippocampus (Elephant)
Amygdala (Guard Dog)
All of the above
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
How much did you enjoy learning about your brain and "flipping your lid"?
It was awesome!
It was ok.
I didn't really like it.
