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For this week's sessions (6/30 and 7/2), I decided to combine the grades' materials because the information was very similar in both sessions. We discussed the occipital lobe, the cerebellum, the brain stem, and the spinal cord in session 3. In order for our vision to work, our brain uses two different pathways (dorsal and ventral) between our eyes and occipital lobe to determine where and what we are seeing. We also took a look at optical illusions and discovered that our brains like to compare and predict what we see, often leading us to perceive what we see wrongly. In understanding the functions of the cerebellum (balance, movement, and sending messages to the rest of the body), we learned how the cerebellum is the "crossing point" of information from the forebrain to reach the correct side of the body. We also played Simon says (with a twist!) to demonstrate understanding of this relationship, and you can find the information for that below in the attachments. Students learned what involuntary actions are (functions that we do not have to think about to perform) in order understand the responsibilities of the brain stem. With this new information, we also discussed how the brain sits in a sack of cerebrospinal fluid and is cushioned by it and the meninges. Finally, we discussed how the spinal cord connects to the brain stem at a hole in the skull called the foramen magnum and how the vertebral column is set up to protect the spinal cord. We then played a Kahoot game to review everything we have been learning in the past two sessions. You can try it out and share it using the link provided below. Overall, I hope that students learned something new about their central nervous system and spinal cord, and I am excited for our next session! These educational resources are free for anyone to use, and I am excited to share them with you! I utilized the platform PearDeck to make these slides interactive and held the session on the Zoom platform. Comment or use the "contact" tab to let me know how you liked this session/resource! 
https://create.kahoot.it/share/the-central-nervous-system/03d3c7af-ac3b-404b-8578-a1bf78565623
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