Nursery World - All in the mind

Help children to sharpen their minds while they strengthen their bodies - and have fun in the process - with these activity ideas from Miranda Walker Are you on the look out for new, fun ways to energise play sessions and motivate children, helping them to develop? Activities that take how the brain works into consideration could be just the thing - and they can even help you to improve your own brain function.

Are you on the look out for new, fun ways to energise play sessions and motivate children, helping them to develop? Activities that take how the brain works into consideration could be just the thing - and they can even help you to improve your own brain function.

Over the last few years, new technology has made it possible for neuroscientists to look inside functioning, living brains. Using advanced imaging techniques, researchers have been able to watch what happens when people learn and think. Consequently, new theories about the ways we think, remember and learn have developed.

Many experts suggest that children can benefit from 'brain activities'.

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