Standards:* B.4.1: Use encyclopedia, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources to help answer science related questions and plan investigations.

A.4.1: Use effective reading strategies to achieve their purposes.

Objective: Students will gain knowledge, learn vocabulary, and develop an appreciation of the many functions of the brain to help motivate them to see the need to protect their head/brain by wearing appropriate helmets. Students will also become sensitive to the needs of people with brain injuries.

Materials: District health and science textbooks, internet, newspaper/magazine articles, and a brain model.

Activity: Students will read both independently and as a class the various materials listed above. Through reading and discussing, the students will be introduced to vocabulary words such as: cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla, and brain stem. Also discuss the areas of the brain and what body function a particular region controls.

Assessment: Students will be able to correctly answer questions about the above concepts with 80% accuracy. Students will informally be observed on their attitudes/comments/actions towards people with disabilities. Also, evidence of what he students have learned will be found in culminating performance/activities.

Resource: SAFE KIDS Coalition

*Wisconsin Model Academic Standards