Knowledge/Skill Building

🧠 Field Notes to Brain Links

Content Expertise Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Academic Mindset Submission Required

Students revisit their petting zoo notebooks, before-during-after tables, and quick sketches to identify recurring triggers, body responses, and emotional shifts. The class builds a shared evidence wall that connects specific observations to the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, dopamine, and serotonin using color-coded sticky notes and sentence stems. Students finish by drafting two possible cause-and-effect statements from their own field evidence.

Plan day
Day 3
Duration
80 min
Grouping
Whole Class
Steps