What's In a Brain

As a school we have just started the Growth Mindset journey. To help start things with a bang Year 3 have been learning about brains first hand.

They have, with gloved hands, looked at,  and explored,  pigs brains.

Question 1.  How much does a pig's brain weigh?  They had expected them to be heavy but after careful investigation a pigs brain weighed about 120 grams. We did not know if it was an adult brain.

Question 2.  What does the inside of the brain look like?  One pupil, Marc, very quickly answered that brains have neurons in them.  He was invited up to have a look for himself.  Sadly he could not see the individual neurons but he could see the different areas.

Question 3. What could you do if you were feeling ill looking at the brains?  Mrs Taylor worked with the few pupils who need to escape. They were making an image of the brain using cord which will be decorated to illustrate what the different parts of the brain do.