GETTIN’ ON YOUR NERVES

Without our nervous system, we wouldn’t be able to sense or react to anything. We wouldn’t even be able to breathe! Seventh grade is learning that the brain, our control center, is responsible for both voluntary and involuntary functions, and stores an incredible amount of information. There are different types of nerves, as well; the nerves in your skin are not the same as the nerves in your eye, and neither do the same job as those which carry messages to and from the rest of our body, through the spinal cord. Did you know that your brain notices and processes thousands of pieces of information at once? Up to – even more than – 40,000! How’s that for multi-tasking?

Miss Kleinschuster

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Topics: 7Seventh grade
Date: Thursday, June 24th, 2010 10:49 am