The Teenage Brain Web Exploration

• Health – 6th Grade: Adolescence
  Introduction – It’s a mystery. Parents, teachers, and sometimes, even adolescents themselves wonder what it is about the way teenagers think and reason that can make them behave in challenging, confusing, and often unpredictable ways. In "Inside the Teenage Brain," FRONTLINE chronicles how scientists are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding some new explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do. In this project, you will learn some of the interesting facts that scientists are discovering about the mysteries of the adolescent brain.
  
  Task – You will work with information found at the following web site:
  
  The Teenage Brain -- What's Going On in There?
  
  At the site, complete the following tasks:
  1) Click on “The Teenage Brain is a Work in Progress”
  **Read the Jay Giedd interview and make careful notes
  **Read the Deborah Yurgelun-Todd interview and make careful notes
  **Work with the interactive Anatomy of a Teen Brain illustration and note the parts of the adolescent brain that are changing most rapidly during adolescence
  **Read “One Reason Teens Respond Differently to the World: Immature Brain Circuitry” report and take careful notes
  
  2) Return to the Home page and click on “From Zzzzzz’s to Aaaaa’s”. Read the information found here and make careful notes about what you learn
  3) Choose some topic to present from the information you have gathered from your reading at this site. Prepare a Power Point presentation (minimum 12 slides) that will help others understand the information that you want to present. Your slides must include at least one graphic or illustration.
  4) Prepare a typed set of notes or a presentation “summary” to accompany your Power Point presentation. This may be a single page “outline” style summary that can be handed in when you give your presentation
  5) You will need to turn in your notes along with your summary when you give your presentation.
  
  Your work will be evaluated based on a grading rubric similar to the one found at this web site: Power Point Evaluation Rubric