BRAIN MYTHS?…..Building Background Knowledge

Language DVD's help your children learn to speak and read at a much faster rate.

Instant messaging and other social media are detrimental to the brains ability to pay attention

Stress kills brain cells.

The energy generated by your brain could light a 25-watt lightbulb.

Boys and girls have different brains, and this translates into different academic behaviors.

You stop growing new brain cells at the age of 18.

Your brain generates approx. 70,000 thoughts per day.

Emotions interfere with the type of learning that occurs in our classrooms.

Learning is the brain's top priority.

More electrical impulses are generated in your brain per day than by all telephones worldwide.

You use 100% of your brain.

Your brain accounts for 20% of the body's energy consumption.

Your brain uses about as much energy as a refrigerator light.

Playing Mozart for your students improves their performance in mathematics and reading.

Taking a break from studying to play video games helps students perform better on assignments.