Making a Good Brain Great Facilitator's Guide

This 12-week unit (designed o be integrated into any high school health, psychology, science, or skills class) has everything an instructor needs to educate students on the brain and how it relates to our behavior, relationships, health, success, and overall happiness. Shown to improve students self-esteem as well as their attitudes toward drugs and mental illness, this comprehensive unit includes twelve sessions worth of instruction, quizzes, handouts, worksheets, lab activities, answer keys, a culmination project (with rubric), standards, Dr. Amen s own Powerpoint presentations, DVD lectures of Dr. Amen teaching the course in a high school, as well as our Which Brain Do You Want? DVD. Class Topics... Session 1: An Introduction to Your Brain and Your Life Session 2: Knowing the Brain Systems That Run Your Life, Part One Session 3: Knowing the Brain Systems That Run Your Life, Part Two Session 4: How to Read Brain Scans Session 5: What Hurts and Helps the Brain Session 6: When the Brain Struggles Session 7: The Brain Can Change Session 8: Brain Boosting Skills: Killing the ANTs that Invade Your Brain Session 9: Brain Boosting Skills: Neuronal Nutrition Session 10: Brain Boosting Skills: Calming the Stress that Harms the Brain Session 11: Brain Boosting Skills: Physical and Mental Exercises for the Brain Session 12: Loving Your Brain for Life About the Author