Brain: The Inside Story: Activities for Grades 6-8 - American Museum ...
Brain: The Inside Story: Activities for Grades 6-8 - American Museum ...
Brain: The Inside Story: Activities for Grades 6-8 - American Museum ...
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BRAIN: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Inside</strong> <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Grades</strong> 6–83Chunk <strong>The</strong>se NumbersANSWER KEYNext, go to the Your Thinking <strong>Brain</strong> section and find the area titled “Short-Term Memory.” Group thenumbers in such a way that you can remember as many as possible. How did you organize them?Copy the chunks or groups of numbers that helped you remember the most numbers at once.(Answers will vary)4Don’t Read <strong>The</strong>se WordsIn the same section, look <strong>for</strong> the display with a clock. Working with your partner, time each other to seehow long it takes to say the COLOR of the words out loud (don’t read the words!). Record your timeand your partner’s time.Try column A once, and column B three times to see if you get faster.NAMEColumn ATimeColumn BTime 1Column BTime 2Column BTime 3(Answers will vary)© 2010 <strong>American</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> of Natural History. All rights reserved.amnh.org/brain
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