Our Workshops
These are the Journey Through The Brain workshops we have completed. Each session combines
brain science with activities, games, and challenges. Click a workshop below
to open the actual presentation used in the session.
🎯 Focus
📸 Memory
🌙 Sleep
🏃 Movement
Focus
🎯
A workshop about attention, distractions, and how the prefrontal cortex helps us plan, make decisions, control impulses, and stay focused.
Inside this workshop:
- Distractions and attention
- The prefrontal cortex
- Pictionary with distractions
- Ways to stay focused + reflection
📄 View Focus Workshop PDF ↗
Memory
📸
Kids explore how memories are formed and stored, including sensory, working, and long-term memory and the brain areas that help make remembering possible.
Inside this workshop:
- Types and stages of memory
- Hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala
- Neurons, synapses, and neuroplasticity
- Hands-on memory and interference activities
📄 View Memory Workshop PDF ↗
Sleep
🌙
A journey through the stages of sleep and what the brain and body are doing during light sleep, deep sleep, and REM sleep.
Inside this workshop:
- Light, deep, and REM sleep
- Sleep spindles and memory
- How sleep supports the body and brain
- Memory activity + interactive quizzes
📄 View Sleep Workshop PDF ↗
Movement
🏃
Kids follow the path from brain to nerves to muscles and learn how different brain areas work together to plan, coordinate, and fine-tune movement.
Inside this workshop:
- Brain → nerves → muscles
- Motor cortex
- Cerebellum and basal ganglia
- Simon Says, ruler drop, and balance activities
📄 View Movement Workshop PDF ↗
Want to see exactly what we taught?
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