Introduction to the Biopsychology Unit
Hey Future Scientists! Get Ready to Journey into the Amazing World Inside You!
Have you ever wondered how your body knows what to do? How do you know to pull your hand away from something hot, or how do you remember the words to your favourite song? It's not magic! It's all thanks to something super cool called biopsychology—the study of how your body and brain work together. Imagine you're exploring the body's secret command centre, discovering how it sends messages and controls everything you do.
Over the next few lessons, we're going to become Brain Explorers! We'll learn to understand our body's super-fast and super-clever communication systems and discover the secrets behind how they work. We'll be doing lots of fun, hands-on activities—no boring stuff here!
We'll be:
- Racing messages in a relay race to see which system is faster!
- Building our own neuron superheroes with arts and crafts!
- Making messages jump across a gap with balls and cones!
- Mapping our brains to discover what each part does!
- Solving puzzles to prove our brains can change and grow!
Get ready to use your creativity, solve puzzles, and have tons of fun as we unlock the amazing world of your body's command centre together! Let's become science superheroes!
Each lesson plan offers cross-curriculum connections, a materials needed overview, explicit teaching content, hands-on learning tasks, outdoor learning integration, assessment suggestions, differentiation strategies, extension tasks, and early career education options.
Also included: 1 Summative assessment task at the end of the unit + FREE Student Workbook.
(2 Downloads: Lesson Plans (29 Pages) and Student Workbook (8 Pages)
