Sentences with phrase «brain breaks in»

This is why teachers need to plan brain breaks in class time and for homework.

Plus, Rob gives a 40 - second pitch to teachers about the reasons they need brain breaks in their classroom.

Regular breaks throughout the school day — from short brain breaks in the classroom to the longer break of recess — are not simply downtime for students.

Judy Willis calls such moments brain breaks in her book Research - Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning.

Not exact matches

Such clots, in turn, can break off and get stuck in the narrow blood vessels of the brain, causing a stroke.

Studies have found that working for one to two hours, then taking a 20 - to 30 - minute break, keeps your brain fresh and enables you to accomplish more in less time.

While it's important to keep up - to - date with new trends and thinking on professional topics, many businesspeople need to give their brains a break and let their imagination find inspiration in the story a novel might have to tell.

So when the province of Ontario was looking for someone to head an interdisciplinary research centre aimed at breaking down barriers in brain science, Stuss was a natural pick.

Recent studies show only one - in - five employees take lunch breaks, despite clear cognitive benefits for our fatigued brains.

Oatmeal is a quick, easy breakfast with a happy side benefit — the complex carbohydrates in oats break down very slowly, keeping your brain well fueled for many hours.

-- Between the brain and major organs the neck... How many movie and TV characters get killed by a broken neck (especially in spy flicks)?

Our bodies» patterns of life tell us that our brain can't focus longer than 90 minutes at a time without a 20 - 30 minute break in between.

Everything in the universe, including our own brains, is built up on this principle of control and direction, and Nature can not break its own fundamental law without the whole process of the universe being undermined and coming to grief.

If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

Jeremy Wiles, who directed a film series that helps men break free from porn, had the opportunity to interview several brain experts in the making of the Conquer Series.

Warren will preach his first sermon following his son's death on just the subject, saying «It's amazing to me that any other organ in your body can break down and there's no shame and stigma to it, but if your brain breaks down, you're supposed to keep it a secret»...

What fascinates me is in the article they quote him as saying: «I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,» «There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.»

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.

Dr. J. A. Hadfield, one of the most distinguished psychologists of my generation, in an essay on The Mind and the Brain argues on a scientific basis «that in the course of evolution the mind shows an ever - increasing tendency to free itself from physical control and, breaking loose from its bonds, to assert its independence and live a life undetermined except by the laws of its own nature.»

We all know by now that if the atomic combinations break down, or if the proper chemical reactions fail to take place, the cell will die or the brain (in which thought seems to dwell) will fail to function, and «mind» will be impaired or it may vanish altogether.

Rick was kind enough to take a break from his busy schedule to let us pick his brain about working on one of the coolest food shows in production today.

Fast forward ten years into the future... it's your lunch break, so naturally to pass the time you have a scroll through Twitter (now implanted into your brain, or eyes, or something) and one of those @FootyBanter accounts that are still going strong (they've replaced all newspapers in fact) has tweeted a list: «Remember these teenage wonderkids?

Mersons brain cells are degrading due to heavy drinks and drugs usage in the past So give the guy a break he has no sense to decipher anything let alone management styles He's still bitter that Wenger decided to sell him Arsene knows

-- Walcott, just watches Alonso sprint in and try to break Bellerain's brain case.

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

We spend a week in a sad daze, our brains fogged in boredom and fear, knowing that as well as pointless international friendlies, bad things often happen during the international break.

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

Rather than pushing, if you can talk to your child and find out the parts that are hard or scary for your child, then you can brain storm how to break down the challenge to smaller steps, or clear up a misperception of the consequences of that step, and in so doing, turn what was frightening into an opportunity for mastery and success.

Another study of degu rats discovered that babies» brains developed normally if the father rat stayed in the nest, but broke down at the level of synapses — in areas of the brain that influence decision - making and emotions — when the father was removed.

But it also means there's none of the mind - melding brain - fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the irrational fear that a bird is going to fly in through the window and take the baby hostage *, along with the never - ending ride on the hair - raising postnatal emotional rollercoaster, with happy joy followed with the deep panic that you have no idea what you're doing and are going to break them and why am I crying again?!.

The rectrospectoscope suggests that a pre-labor c / s would have resulted in an easier recovery for me (bad pain for two weeks or so, plus about a year when I couldn't sit properly thanks to a bruised or broken tailbone) and (more importantly) a few more functioning brain cells for my son.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

In theory I'd love to work on extra things with her, do something educational or even get outside more — but really, she just needs a «brain break» — and lets be honest — so do mom and dad!

Because smart is such a vague term, I broke the brain - boosting benefits of motherhood down into five attributes in the book: perception, efficiency, resiliency, motivation, and emotional intelligence.

The area of the brain that signals when you're awake or asleep breaks down in people with Alzheimer's.

He has been in and out of a coma, broke 50 + bones and now has some brain damage.

So give your conscious brain a break and let your rich subconscious pick up the slack; the perfect baby name just might come to you in your dreams.

Vivitrol, on the other hand, is designed to block opioid receptors in the brain, which prevents users from getting high and, in theory, helps break their addiction.

A couple of bird brains broke into barn housing chickens confiscated in a massive raid on upstate cockfighting ring this week and tried to bust the roosters out of the joint — only to find themselves behind bars.

I will support anyone who will help to break the stranglehold that Noam and his little machine have on New Rochelle in which they divert school resources (brain power and money) to «their» schools and raise campaign cash by tapping into companies and individuals with business before the City government.

In other words, Tsai says, the memories are not actually lost, rather neuronal damage breaks many of the retrieval pathways in the braiIn other words, Tsai says, the memories are not actually lost, rather neuronal damage breaks many of the retrieval pathways in the braiin the brain.

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 skull's soft palate had been broken, apparently in an effort to extract the nutrient - rich brain tissue.

Arguments abound over whether the hallmark protein clusters that accumulate in the brain are a cause or an effect of the illness, and current treatments do not address the main problem that causes impaired thinking: broken synapses, the junctions that allow neurons to communicate with one another.

Implants that beam brain signals around a break in the spinal cord may let paralysed people walk again

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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.

Recent research has shown that the cascade of signals in the proinflammatory immune response tend to cause the amino acid tryptophan to break down into kynurenic acid rather than serotonin, a brain chemical that influences mood.

A research team, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain.