Friday, March 11, 2016

Making Connections

After our class learned about the Nervous system and the first half of the Chemistry unit, we had the opportunity to learn about the "Chemistry of Neurotransmitters".

We explored the chemical formulas of some of the more common neurotranmitters and their effects on the human body, then compared the similarities in our human brain to the brain of a sheep.  Thank you Brianna and Emily for holding the specimens up in this photo for us to see them better.



If you are interested, you can watch this video clip of a doctor comparing a sheep brain to a human brain on the dissecting tray.  No, unfortunately we do not have access to human brains so we could never do this ourselves in our classroom!