Chapter 3: Brain Research Applied to Middle School

This chapter is basically about teaching students to learn in the way that is easiest or most natural way the brain works. The book suggests learning with the five senses because that’s a way the brain stores and retrieves memory. Another term is chunking, which is a group of items associated or related to the topic and memorized in conjunction to the original idea. Emotional ties to the material also help trigger memories. Proper hydration is also talked about on the same level as Bloom’s Taxonomy. The last part is about teaching adolescents how to reason in an argument.

Brain based research into the field of education is a relatively new phenomenon. The idea of teaching students to learn in the same way memory is naturally formed seems like an automatic choice. As with all science there are new developments all the time. However this is the information that we know right now and the end of the chapter encourages the reading to implement this knowledge in the classroom and stay up to date on information as it comes to light.