Brain-Compatible Activities - Middle Years by David Sousa

Brain-Compatible Activities - Middle Years

By David Sousa

Practical, Brian-compatible activities every primary teacher can use!

Brain research has provided a tremendous opportunity to develop instructional techniques that facilitate the brain's innate learning capacity. A educators, we can take this knowledge and apply it to the strategies we use in our classrooms.

This essential resource, based on David A. Sousa's bestseller, How the Brain Learns, Third Edition, provides ready-to-use, brain-compatible activities that feature some of the following strategies

• Graphic organisers
• Mnemonic devices
• Cooperative learning
• Movement to enhance retention
• Music to stimulate brain activity and creativity

These activities cover all the content areas in Years 6-9 and include topics such as vocabulary, characterisation, percentages, word problems, family history, historical research, mitosis, chemical equations and much more!

The more we understand how the brain learn, the more instructional options we have. This unique resource helps you make the most of the brain's learning potential and transform you teaching practices to engage every student in your classroom.