Materials List:
Brain Power:
Exploring Reaction Time and Building Your Own Helmet
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/umo-2900-brain-processing-senses-helmet-design-activity
Exploring Reaction Time and Building Your Own Helmet
Each pair needs:
- 1 ruler
- 1 pencil
- Brain Processing and Senses Worksheet (1 per student)
- (optional) 1 calculator
Each group of four needs:
- any building materials; some examples below
- electronics exploration kit (available online)
- magnetic building sticks (available online)
- LEGOs (available online)
- wood building planks (available online)
- building blocks (available online)
- interlocking disks (available online)
- building set (available online)
- Play-Doh
- helmet building supply options
- cardboard
- egg cartons
- pipe cleaners
- rubber bands
- straws
- yarn
- string
- tape
- newspaper
- bubble wrap
- cotton balls
- sponges
- pom poms
- feathers
- Popsicle sticks
- clay
For the entire class to share:
- laptop or tablet with projector to display the Brain Processing and Senses Presentation
- access to videos (as needed):
- BrainPop Nervous System (need subscription)
- Generation Genius Brain Processing of Senses (12:23 minutes)
- A Journey Through Your Nervous System (8:12 minutes)
