Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about…
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8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organizes an…
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While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed…
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Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fails me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at…
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Session 4-2 on Dec. 01 with the 8 years old by Caroline. The Donders brain puzzle is displayed on the board (I didn’t succeed to give children explanations about the different brain area but it was still useful to give some context to the recall about neurons). We talk again about new vocabulary seen at…
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After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived at the question: why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be linked to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress to…
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week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted with a stressful situation: make an oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs? Bonjour, Children watch…
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A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session: the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make a movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side…
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Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice…
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