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 ↗
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