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Brain

From Bill Nye the Science Guy · 1994

Brain
23 min3rd4th5th6thScienceHealth
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Summary

Bill explores the control center that takes in information from your senses, makes sense of it, and tells your body what to do.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Bill explores the control center that takes in information from your senses, makes sense of it, and tells your body what to do..

  1. How does information get from your eyes or ears to your brain?
  2. What does the brain do with the information it receives?
  3. Why do you pull your hand back from something hot so fast?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: brain, nerve, signal.

Try it: Name a sense, then trace how its information reaches your brain and what your body does in response.