Homework for Brains On Board Lesson

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For those of you who need to finish the questions for the Brains Activity, I have posted the questions below.  

Brains Comparison Activity:  Analysis Questions

1.Observe the sheep brain.  Which brain of those that you have observed is most like the sheep brain?  (6a)

2.Why do you think some brains are similar?  (6b)

3.Consider the cerebellum of each animal.  Which animals would you expect to have well-developed cerebellums and why?  (6e)

4.Consider other observations you made about the brains.  What inferences might you make about an animal that has a brain with very large optic lobes or olfactory lobes?  (6f)

5.Look at your observations of the cerebrum of each animal.  Do you observe anything about the human cerebrum that makes it distinctive from the others?  If so, what? (6c)

6.Based on what you know about the cerebrum’s function, how does human’s cerebrum make humans distinctive?  (6d)

Summary Questions

1.After this lesson, what is another PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC that makes

humans unique? 

2.How does the structure of the human brain contribute to humans’ unique

characteristics?  Explain using your new knowledge of the brain.