The brain is probably the most amazing part of the human body. It is composed of neurons, glands, and other subsections that together run the human body, maintain homeostasis, and perform cognitive process. However, the general community may not know much about this indispensable organ’s astonishing properties. This semester I learned about these properties through Wendy Susuki’s book-Happy Brain, Happy Life, and through this book along with the aid of this class I was able to help the community through a service learning event.
My service learning event consisted of teaching the attending children of the north west boys and girls club about brain plasticity and how exercise enhances this feature. The reason my team and I chose to pair up these …show more content…
My team mates and I arrived a few minutes before the event began to set up our booth which was part of the brain fest- which was hosted by Texas A&M International University. Our booth consisted of 4 modules- the introduction in which we explained brain plasticity. We stated that “the brain has plasticity and that this meant that is was able to grow and learn new thing as well as deteriorate and forget. And to make sure that the brain did not become slow and forget that it needed to exercise by being used.” That module transitioned into the second one in which we played a matching game. We challenged the students by using snowflakes as out matching game theme. This was in order to establish that you must pay close attention to differentiate each snowflake to match it. Upon …show more content…
Personally I am not at interacting with children. I expect them to be respectful, behaved, and attentive, while this is certainly not the case for most kids. I also have a bad habit of underestimating the capabilities of anyone under the age of 13- wrongly so because many of kids I interacted with in the event were quite bright and learned quickly. I have little patience and I know I can be harsh when getting after my own relatives who are younger. I knew however that I could not be in control of these children to that extent, so I had to harness all the patience with in me and try to relate to them by thinking what a younger me would have felt or wanted. Also I realized that when I become a nurse patients will come in an array of varieties and that it’s for the best to learn to deal with different kinds of people with different backgrounds. There was a child that was particularly sharp and quick to pick up what we were saying, but because of this he’d bore easily and became rowdy. In this I saw the ‘typical difficult’ patient. We had to be extra creative and informative in order to keep his mind busy with new and interesting information; So as with a patient that would need extra detailed explanations of their situation and attention to care. This I was good at however, I was quick to find his interest and provided more difficult to
My service learning event consisted of teaching the attending children of the north west boys and girls club about brain plasticity and how exercise enhances this feature. The reason my team and I chose to pair up these …show more content…
My team mates and I arrived a few minutes before the event began to set up our booth which was part of the brain fest- which was hosted by Texas A&M International University. Our booth consisted of 4 modules- the introduction in which we explained brain plasticity. We stated that “the brain has plasticity and that this meant that is was able to grow and learn new thing as well as deteriorate and forget. And to make sure that the brain did not become slow and forget that it needed to exercise by being used.” That module transitioned into the second one in which we played a matching game. We challenged the students by using snowflakes as out matching game theme. This was in order to establish that you must pay close attention to differentiate each snowflake to match it. Upon …show more content…
Personally I am not at interacting with children. I expect them to be respectful, behaved, and attentive, while this is certainly not the case for most kids. I also have a bad habit of underestimating the capabilities of anyone under the age of 13- wrongly so because many of kids I interacted with in the event were quite bright and learned quickly. I have little patience and I know I can be harsh when getting after my own relatives who are younger. I knew however that I could not be in control of these children to that extent, so I had to harness all the patience with in me and try to relate to them by thinking what a younger me would have felt or wanted. Also I realized that when I become a nurse patients will come in an array of varieties and that it’s for the best to learn to deal with different kinds of people with different backgrounds. There was a child that was particularly sharp and quick to pick up what we were saying, but because of this he’d bore easily and became rowdy. In this I saw the ‘typical difficult’ patient. We had to be extra creative and informative in order to keep his mind busy with new and interesting information; So as with a patient that would need extra detailed explanations of their situation and attention to care. This I was good at however, I was quick to find his interest and provided more difficult to