Sentences with phrase «use brain breaks»

We can use brain breaks and focused - attention practices to positively impact our emotional states and learning.

We can use brain breaks and focused - attention practices to positively impact our emotional states and learning.

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Like the use of «break» instead of «brake»... «the lord giveth, and the lord taketh» they must have meant your brains!!

Seattle's largest network, PEPS.org, uses Zero to Five as part of the weekly curriculum, in a «brain development break.»

I also use engineering and STEM toys as «brain breaks» during my homeschool day as a way to give my kids some down time while keeping their brains active and engaged.

I'm inching closer to the borders of insanity and my brain could use a much - needed break.

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.

The research team simplified this data using voxel - based morphometry, or VBM — a technique that breaks the brain into 3 - D pixels and permits rigorous statistical comparison of brain tissue density among people.

The ground - breaking technique could eventually be used to treat glioblastoma multiforme, which is the most common and aggressive brain tumour in adults, and notoriously difficult to treat.

Alpha got a break last year when Apple announced that it was using it as the brains behind Siri, an automated assistant that comes with the latest iPhone.

Pattnaik and other Nebraska scientists continue to investigate how the virus breaks the barrier between the brain and the bloodstream and to develop a drug that could be used to treat Zika infection.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

A team led by psychologist Jordan Grafman and neurologist Paolo Nichelli found that the overall strategy the brain uses for chess can be broken down into simpler functions and mapped to specific areas.

«This interesting study in mice uses a chemical able to break down Alzheimer's plaques in the brain after they've already formed, potentially presenting a way to circumvent the difficult issue of timing with this treatment approach.

For more information about Jeneva Cronin's, GRID Lab's and the CSNE's ground - breaking research in the area of sensory feedback, read «For the first time in humans, researchers use brain surface stimulation to provide «touch» feedback to direct movement.»

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

It's an old broken tape I used to have playing in my brain.

Nobody who isn't a robot is able to keep pounding the iron endlessly with the same level of motivation — we can all use a break from time to time to refresh our brains and come back with renewed enthusiasm.

Besides caffeine's boosting effect on CNS activity, there is also the combined impact of caffeine's metabolites theobromine, which improves nutrient and oxygen flow to your brain, theophylline which relaxes the muscles and improves heart rate efficiency and paraxanthine, which improves lipolysis, the process where fats are broken down to be used as an energy source.

Carbohydrates break down into glucose, which we then use for energy — energy for skeletal muscles as well as organs like your brain.

Thankfully, after staying patient, working back slowly, and using my brain instead of my ego, I have been able to break one of my longest standing PR's.

The brain can not use fat for energy like all the other organs in the body, so with the lack of glucose it must break fat down into ketones to function.

Nearly every cell in your body was designed to use glucose for energy — especially your brain cells — but fructose breaks down into a variety of toxins that can have devastating effects on your health.

A condition called ketosis takes place where your body breaks down fats into ketones which are used as an alternative food for your brain, organs, and muscles.

Finally, because of the inactivation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (by the low insulin concentration), the glucose that is used by tissues outside the brain is largely only partially broken down to pyruvate and lactate, which can then be recycled in the liver trough gluconeogensis [7].

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Behavioural psychologists use a term called «chunking», which involves the brain breaking up larger tasks into smaller ones.

Rather, the body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which is carried to the brain through the blood stream and used immediately by nerve cells for energy.

In the video above, check out my routine and see the products I use to give my skin a boost (and my brain a break) after a long day.

A brain break that I've integrated into my classroom routine involves singing the alphabet song using Disney movie words.

This is a versatile resource, the vocabulary cards can be used for a number of learning activities as well as displays, and the games and challenges are suitable for warm - ups, brain breaks or «station» activities, as individual or collaborative tasks, Some can be developed into entire lessons.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

These cards are wonderful for use as a brain break or as a way of stimulating discussion in the classroom.

Use as exit tickets, entrance tickets, comprehension checks, sponge activities, brain breaks, Scoots, Center activities, Station activities, and so much more.

Instead of having the physical activity as a break from learning to engage in later learning, the Kinect can use the best of both worlds, coupling brain - based physical learning and gestures with learning of content.

Includes a YouTube music clip for use as with a brain break activity.

«The children love the brain breaks, they ask for them and many use them at home, because they enjoy the benefits.»

I found some of the cutest You Tube videos to use this month as a quick brain break, a chance to learn a little song and have a little fun while you also worry about Test Prep and all those other good things!

Student movement is now planned into hour long lessons with the use of centers, labs, Kagan strategies and «brain breaks».

When have you used syn - naps, and did you notice the positive impact of these «brain breaks» on your students?

Use a refocusing technique or cue to signal the end of a Brain Break and to assist students in transitioning to the next task.

From 50 % to 100 % brain use is perinatal matrix three, where the tremendous mind powers of perinatal matrix two have grown to such proportions as to be uncontrolable, and all Hell breaks loose.

This is an example of retraining your brain for Milenomics — you're breaking down the idea of flying one airline, and instead creating a network of options in your head, using your tools to benefit you the most.

Whereas previously to view stereoscopic 3D images on a 3DS you needed to keep your head locked at a certain viewing angle, which if broken would cause you to see two images that confused your brain and hurt your eyes, the New 3DS uses its top camera in conjunction with a new infrared sensor to locate and follow your eyes for about 60 - 70 degrees either side of centre, constantly readjusting the angle at which it projects images and effectively meaning the 3D effect is never lost.

Not to be confused with light therapy, dawn simulation uses electric light to trick the brain that the dawn is breaking, at a time when it's still actually dark outside.

It's a much more tiring, concentrated experience — technical edits used to work as built - in brain - breaks for me — but that's made me a better drafter.

You or a loved one may have sustained injuries like whiplash, burns, spinal cord injuries, broken or dislocated a bone, lost the use of a limb, brain injury or a loved one may have had a wrongful death.

So what I want to do next is spend a couple minutes talking with Ben and picking his brain about Microsoft Office 2016 which is the latest and newest version and we're going to sort of break down some of the best tips for Outlook, Word, Excel, and maybe a little bit on PowerPoint but I know Outlook and Word are most used.

Scientists at Columbia University in Manhattan, NY, have researched the brain of college students after a break - up using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Pursuing certification in several practices that use breath work, movement and mindfulness, you can expect routine brain breaks to learn how these practices are being used to reduce stress and promote wellness.