Brains! On Thursday the 4 of August Room 13 went to look and learn about real brains in the Sunnybrae hall. The human brain apparently is as heavy as a third of your natural body weight. The neuroscientist said ” the more wrinkles you have in your brain the more smarter you are”. The brain we looked at was donated from a 72 year old man who said, ”When I die I want you to take my brain and use it for education”. The neuroscientist told us that your brain can stretch up to the size of the whole hall.
The second brain we looked at was a cross section of a brain (brain cut in half). The third brain we saw was a monkey brain and it was a medium sized monkey brain and it looked similar to a human brain. The fourth brain was a cat’s brain the cerebellum was big so that the cat can land on its feet when it jumps off high places. The fifth brain was a rat’s brain and the rat’s brain was quite small the brain. The rat brain sample was held in a special liquid in a sealed container so it wouldn’t fall apart. The rat brain was as big as a quarter of its body. It was a very interesting session and we felt very fortunate to have a neuroscientist visit and share the various examples of brains with us.
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