What part of the brain is responsible for your memories?

What part of the brain is responsible for your safety and emotions?

Someone is making fun of you at lunch because they heard you failed your math test. You decide it's not worth it to give them attention and just keep eating. What part of your brain did you just use?

When you feel calm, ready to learn, relaxed, and safe, that means your PFC (prefrontal cortex) is in control.

You’re sitting in class, listening to your teacher describe your assignment. Then when it was time to do it, you got right to work and completed it correctly. What part of your brain helped you do this?

You touch a hot stove and quickly pull your hand away when you feel how hot it is. What part of your brain did you just use?

Fight, flight, or freeze involve what part of the brain?

Using this response can mean responding negatively like physically pushing or hitting someone. But it can also mean yelling, using mean words, blaming others, stomping your feet, etc.

This type of response to danger could mean running away or trying to escape. Like leaving the area or leaving the room.

This type of response could mean you physically and mentally “shut down”. It might mean your body is stuck and you can’t move, or it could mean your brain has stopped understanding what’s going on.

If a situation has made you feel upset and uncomfortable, or your body feels really tense and your temperature seems to rise to your face, your __________ is in control.

What if you’re walking across the street when you notice a car start driving quickly towards you. You run as fast as you can to get to the other side. What part of the brain helped you respond to this danger?

What happens if your amygdala (guard dog) is in control?

Is it ever a good thing for your amygdala to be in control?

True or false. It would be considered flipping your lid if... you are trying to leave for school and cannot find your other shoe... so, you start to get frustrated and stressed because you don't want to be late. You can't remember where you put your other shoe so you start yelling at your siblings and accusing them, "who took my other shoe?!"

True or false. It would be considered flipping your lid if... you are crossing the road and you notice a car driving quickly toward you. You scream and run as fast as you can to get to the other side of the road.

What part of the brain is this? Remembering all of the information for a science test because you studied really hard the night before.

What part of the brain is this? A person calls you a mean name, but rather than yell at them, you go directly to an adult and let them know about the situation.

You're playing outside but it starts to rain, lightening strikes nearby, and thunder gets really loud so you run to the house to play inside.