Day 7 Research

Our brain can be the most complex organ in the body. Our hemispheres contain four lobes. The central core is found in all vertibrates. The limbic system is found only in mammals.
Our project about the human brain has been going well. We all ready know what we are going to put on the poster. Our poster will contain facts about the brain. We also have a mini quiz that contains five questions:
1) Where is our memory stored at?
2) What is the Hippocampusand what is it's function?
3) How many hemispheres do we have?
4) Where is our vision part located in the brain?
5) Can you name all the parts of the brain?
Can you answer these question? If you want to answer these questions please post your answers and we'll see if you got them right.

Day 6 Research

Our brain has many amazing facts that we don't know about. Like the fact that our brain can survive for, 4 through 6 minutes without oxygen before it can die.Our brain can also detect when we are tickling ourselves.Also,12% of people can dream in black and white.Our brain does not use up 10% of the brain. Each part of the brain has it's own purpose.Our brain has many more amazing facts that we still need to know about.

Day 5 research

We have found many amazing facts about the human brain Like our brain not having any pain receptors so it means that our brain cannot feel pain.Our brain Is the fatest organ in our body it contains at least 60% of fat.We also found out that reading out loud can promote your brain or even talking to a young child. Another fact I found out was that while we are awake our brain generates 10 and 23 watts . This can power up a light bulb.

Day 4 research

We have found many interesting facts about the human brain like the skin of the brain weighing twice as much as our brain.Our brain has a white and grey matter. We have 60% white matter and 40% grey matter.I also found out that our brain at birth was almost the same size as an adult's brain. Our brain will stop shrinking when we reach the age of 18.Another amazing fact that we found out was that our brain uses 20% of our oxygen.our project is going well we will begin designing it tomorrow.

Day 3 reasearch

According to http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/brain-article/ An organ Is responsible for our personality memories and movement. This organ is jellylike mass of fat weighing 3 pounds.Our cerebrum is the largest part of the brain it is 85% of the organs weight.
Acorrding to http://biology.about.com/od/humananatomybiology/a/anatomybrain.htm the midbrain and hindbrain make up the brainstem.The hindbrain extends from our spinal cord and composed of the metencephalon. Our project has bin going well we have gathered many informational facts that will help us complete our project.

Day 2 Research

Acorrding to www.wikipedia.org/wiki/human_brain our brain has bin shriking for about the last 28,000 years.Our brain is our control center of our Nervous System.Our brain has general structures like other mammals.
The wikipedia .org/wiki/human_brain also states that our brain stem controls our heart rate and our breathing.The volume of a women's brain is 1260cm3.

Day 1 research

Acorrding to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episodes3/index.htlm teenagers from as early as ages 12 suffer from a brain disorder.Also,the first known writing on the brain was found in Ancient Sumerian records.
Acorrding to http://www.how stuff works.com our brain performs an incredible number of tasks.It also is controlled and regulated by an organ that is about the size of a head of a cauliflower. -Janicel and Aileen