Title: How does your brain control everything in your body?
Plan:
Purpose: To explain
Audience: Whaea Tamzin
RT: Use passive voice
NL: To explain How
How does your brain control everything in your body?
Well in fact, your brain is the boss of your body. It runs the show and controls just about everything you do, even when you're asleep. Your brain has many different parts that work together.
The brain has three main parts: the cerebrum (sr-ee-bruhm), cerebellum (seh-ruh-beh-luhm) and brain stem. The brain stem has many basic functions, including regulation of heart rate, breathing, sleeping, and eating. The cerebellum is at the back of the brain, below the cerebrum. It’s a lot smaller than the cerebrum. But it’s a very important part of the brain. It controls balance, movement, and coordination (how your muscles work together). The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum has two hemispheres (or halves). The cerebrum controls voluntary movement, speech, intelligence, memory and emotion.
The brain is the body’s control center: it sends messages to your body through a network of nerves called “the nervous system”, which controls your muscles, so that you can walk, run and move around.
The brain connects to nerves that travel throughout the body. Nerves from our senses (hearing, seeing, touch, etc) send signals to the brain to let the brain know what is going on in the outside world. The brain also sends signals using nerves to muscles in order to make our body move.
When you sleep, your brain’s glymphatic (waste clearance) system clears out waste from the central nervous system. It removes toxic byproducts from your brain, which build up throughout the day. This allows your brain to work well when you wake up.
Ways of keeping your brain healthy are...
Eating healthy foods that contain vitamins and minerals, they are important for the nervous system.
Getting a lot of exercise (playtime) increases heart rate, which pumps more oxygen to the brain. It aids the release of hormones which provide an excellent environment for the growth of brain cells.
Wearing a helmet when you ride a bike or play other sports that require head protection. Wearing a helmet reduces your risk of a serious brain injury and death.
Use your brain by doing challenging activities, such as puzzles, reading, playing music, making art, or anything else that gives your brain a workout.
Don’t drink alcohol, take drugs, or smoke.
Wow! excellent story I loved the part that tells you about what you can do to help your brain.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work.
This is an awesome piece of writing Holly! I can tell you have done a lot of research to make sure you had all the information you needed to write your explanation about the brain. I particularly like how you included a break down of how to pronounce parts of the brain, as I'm sure some people would find them hard too say.
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