Personal Development: Quarter 1 - Module 13: Develop A Personal Plan To Enhance Brain Functions
Personal Development: Quarter 1 - Module 13: Develop A Personal Plan To Enhance Brain Functions
Personal Development: Quarter 1 - Module 13: Develop A Personal Plan To Enhance Brain Functions
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Personal Development
Quarter 1 – Module 13:
Develop a Personal Plan
to Enhance Brain Functions
Introductory Message
This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners,
can continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions,
directions, exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to understand
each lesson.
Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-
by-step as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you.
In addition to the material in the main text, Notes to the Teacher are also
provided to our facilitators and parents for strategies and reminders on how they
can best help you on your home-based learning.
Please use this module with care. Do not put unnecessary marks on any
part of this SLM. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises and
tests. And read the instructions carefully before performing each task.
If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering
the tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator.
Thank you.
This material was crafted to give you – learners, the right amount of assistance
for you to absorb and acquire all the necessary concepts and nature comprising
oneself. Lessons are bounded on the performance and content standard, learning
competencies and level of the learners. This also used languages appropriate to the
understanding of the varied types of students’ learning acquisition. Sequence of
lessons adhered to the arrangement of the competencies as reflected on the DepEd’s
curriculum guide for this course.
Here, you will learn more things about the brain as the command center of
the nervous system. The parts of the human brain have different functions of their
own. In this lesson, you will explore activities that will enhance your brain power.
You will also learn amazing facts that would improve your brain functions. You will
as well be expected to develop a plan to do because once the brain is capacitated
with positive thoughts and made your mind with positive conviction it is possible to
create a brand new you. The more experience the human brain has, the smarter it
gets. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you
are now using.
This lesson is entitled: Develop a Personal Plan to Enhance Brain Functions.
What I Know
C. Brain function
Based from the illustration, label and describe the function of the
different parts of the brain.
Understanding the powers of the mind can help you develop your brain
functions in the middle and late adolescence stages of development. The learning
adaptation of every learner varies, and so you are expected to come up with a
personal developmental plan to best cope with your own pace of learning towards
enhancing your brain functions.
What’s In
Let us begin this lesson by letting you assess your learning about the previous
topics on Powers of the Mind, specifically on the parts and functions of the human
brain.
A. Choose the letter of the best answer. Encircle the letter of the correct answer
1. There are four main regions of the brain. Among them which region interprets
information from the outside world, and embodies the essence of the mind
and soul?
A. Brain C. Cerebellum
B. Brain Stem D. Cerebrum
2. According to Roger Sperry, the left hemisphere of the brain was responsible
for language understanding and articulation.
A. False C. Irrelevant
B. Maybe D. True
7. The human brain is larger in relation to body size than any other brains.
What is the weight of the human brain?
A. 3.3 Pounds (1.5 Kilograms)
B. 3.3 Ounces (85 Grams)
C. 3.3 Tons (2.7 Metric Tons)
D. 3.3 Kilograms (6.6 Pounds)
9. Which part of the brain helps keep your balance, so you don’t fall flat
on your face?
A. Cerebellum C. Pituitary Gland
B. Medulla Oblongata D. Spinal Cord
10. Which part of the brain helps to judge, plan, and solve problem?
A. Frontal Lobe C. Parietal Lobe
B. Occipital Lobe D. Temporal Lobe
11. Which part of the brain interprets signals from vision, hearing, motor,
sensory and memory?
A. Frontal Lobe C. Parietal Lobe
B. Occipital Lobe D. Temporal Lobe
12. Which part of the brain interprets vision (color, light, movement)?
A. Frontal Lobe C. Parietal Lobe
B. Occipital Lobe D. Temporal Lobe
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What’s New
Do you have something in mind? I am sure you are planning to enhance your
brain functions. Improving your brain functions for personal development may help
your life become productive and successful.
Activity 1
Read and analyze the following lateral puzzles. Do your best to solve them.
Puzzle 1 There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of
the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?
Puzzle 2 How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto
the ground and still alive?
Fill out the table with its necessary inputs to develop your plan towards
enhancing your brain functions. Enumerate as many as you can.
PERDEV Chart
What is your personal idea Enumerate steps on how to What are the ways to
about brain functions? write developmental plan. enhance your brain
functions?
What is It
Why Do You Need a Plan? The reason you need a personal development plan
is that making a good plan will help you to make better decisions and remind yourself
where you want to go especially in enhancing one’s brain. Good preparation and early
identification of goals increases the probability of success.
A personal development plan is a framework that is required for senior high
school students to work out with to track one’s self-improvement. It is something
that makes you do before the end of the day. Having a developmental plan helps you
direct your path towards becoming a holistic adolescent. A personal development
plan is your guideline for your life and your future success.
The mind map is the external mirror of your own radiant or natural thinking
facilitated by a powerful graphic process, which provides the universal key to unlock
the dynamic potential of the brain.
One simple way to understand a Mind Map is by comparing it to a map of a
city. The city center represents the main idea; the main roads leading from the center
represent the key thoughts in your thinking process; the secondary roads or
branches represent your secondary thoughts, and so on. Special images or shapes
can represent landmarks of interest or particularly relevant ideas.
The great thing about mind mapping is that you can put your ideas down in
any order, as soon as they pop into your head. You are not constrained by thinking
in order. Simply, throw out any and all ideas, then worry about reorganizing them
later.
Mind Maps were popularized by author and consultant, Tony Buzan. They
use a two-dimensional structure, instead of the list format conventionally used to
take notes. This makes information easier to remember, as it's held in a format that
our minds find easy to recall and quick to review.
Also known as brain mapping, this process allows you to visualize inside the
brain and identify very clearly the irregular brainwaves that cause neurological
issues. From that brain map, a report is generated for each patient that shows the
areas of dysfunction and the protocols recommended to address them.
Write the title of the subject or project that you're exploring in the
center of a page and draw a circle around it, as shown in figure 1, below.
Figure 1
Step 2. Sub-topics:
Draw lines out from this circle as you think of subheadings of the
topic or important facts or tasks that relate to your subject. Label
these lines with your subheadings. (See figure 2, below.)
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 3
Guide for the students:
Based from the presented steps in making mind mapping, have you thought
of a topic that would interest you to explore?
● Use colors, drawings and symbols copiously. Be as visual as you can, and
your brain will thank you. I’ve met many people who don’t even try, with the
excuse they’re "not artists". Don’t let that keep you from trying it out!
● Keep the topics labels as short as possible, keeping them to a single word
– or, better yet, to only a picture. Especially in your first mind maps, the
temptation to write a complete phrase is enormous, but always look for
opportunities to shorten it to a single word or figure – your mind map will be
much more effective that way.
● Vary text size, color and alignment. Vary the thickness and length of the
lines. Provide as many visual cues as you can to emphasize important points.
Every little bit like changing the text font, size, color and alignment helps
engaging one’s brain.
What’s More
There are different activities and exercises that you can do to enhance both
the right and left hemisphere of the brain. Follow the instructions below to improve
your drawing and writing skills.
B. Write an essay about the topic: ‘Which way to go?’ to enhance your writing
skills. You may use a separate sheet of paper.
________1. Mind power is one of the strongest and most useful powers you possess.
________2. Your mind mapping ability may not enhance your brain functions.
________3. Left brain controls all the muscles on the right-hand side of the body and
the right brain controls the left side. One hemisphere may be slightly
dominant, as with left- or right-handedness.
________4. Everybody is not expected for a better and smarter brain, the reason why
there is no need to enhance brain functions.
________5. Always understand your dominant brain type, you may be able to adjust
your study methods, and perhaps shape your schedule and coursework,
to suit your own personality type.
________7. New Mind Maps examples were popularized by author and consultant,
Tony Buzan.
________8. Improving and following the steps in mind mapping will guide your
mind map connected to each other.
________9. Need to apply more recommendations in mind mapping to make the mind
map easy. They are the use of colors, drawings, and symbols, keeping the
topic label, as much as possible, short, and vary text size.
_______10.Getting and learning information such as the brain facts and enhancing
our brain functions leads full ‘Powers of the Mind’.
What I Can Do
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
Hello
Figure 7
Daily Developmental Plan to Enhance Brain Functions
S. Memorize T. Pray
Note: Choose your answer. Write the letter that describes the picture inside each box
above.
1 8 15
2 9 16
3 10 17
4 11 18
5 12 19
6 13 20
7 14
Remarks
Date Activity/ies
(Daily, weekly or state it how often.)
Concept Development
Choose the best word inside the parenthesis ( ) to complete the concept
of the following statement about developing a plan to enhance brain functions.
Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Mind (ability, power) is one of the strongest and most useful powers you
possess.
3. Left brain controls all the muscles on the right-hand side of the body and
the (left, right) brain controls the left side. One hemisphere may be slightly
dominant, as with left- or right-handedness.
4. Everybody is expected for a better and smarter brain, the reason why there
is a need to enhance brain (development, functions).
5. Always understand your dominant brain type, you may be able to adjust
your study methods, and perhaps shape your schedule and coursework, to
suit your own (mind, personality) type.
8. Improving and following the steps in mind mapping will (guide, include)
you in keeping you mind map connected to each other.
10. Getting information such as the brain (facts, parts) and enhancing our
brain functions leads to a maximum ‘Powers of the Mind’.
11. In mind mapping, you can enhance it through the use of the following. Which is
not included in the group?
A. Color C. Philippine map
B. Drawing D. Symbols
12. There are different ways to enhance brain functions. Which is not included in
the group?
A. Get plenty of sleep C. Improve your focus
B. Have time to read more D. Learn just one language
13. Look at the mind illustration below. Which one is the Frontal lobe?
A B C D
14. Look at the mind illustration below. Which one is the Temporal lobe?
A B C D
15. Look at the mind illustration below. Which one is the Brain Stem?
A B C D
Mind Maple Classic: A suggested online link that you can use to personalize your
mind maps with colors, images, and pictures. Here’s look and try MindMaple Classic
to increase your creativity of organizing thoughts and ideas about certain topics.
Use this Mind Maple Classic to mind map the topic, “My Personal Goal as an
Adolescent.” Show and express your ideas creatively through drawings, colourful
images just like the given example above. You may use a separate sheet of paper.
Verbosity The mind map The mind map The mind map The mind map
presents only presents multiple presents multiple presents
one word or words or names words or names on multiple words
name per on some many branches. or names on
branch or branches. most or all
hook. branches.
Radiance The mind map The mind map The mind map The mind map
radiates from radiates from a radiates from a radiates from a
the center of central point. central point. Few central point.
the page. Ideas Some ideas ideas branch out of No ideas
branch out branch out of other ideas; most branch out of
from other other ideas; some branches are a other ideas; all
ideas in a branches are a single line branches are a
logical and single line extending from the single line
organized extending from center. extending from
manner. the center. the center. OR:
The mind map
does not
radiate from a
central point.
Illustrations The mind map The mind map The mind map The mind map
includes at includes at least includes at least includes no
least relevant 6 4 relevant relevant 2 relevant
illustrations. illustrations. The illustrations. The illustrations, or
The illustrations illustrations make the illustrations
illustrations make the mind the mind map do not make
make the mind map memorable. memorable. the mind map
map memorable.
memorable.
Neatness The mind map The mind map is The mind map is The mind map
is very neat somewhat neat not very neat and is not readable.
and orderly. and orderly. The orderly. The mind (This may affect
The mind map mind map is map is readable. other portions
is clearly clearly readable. of the grade).
readable.
4 BRAINS
All details of the brain map go with the topic. there's a
very clear discussion and conclusion.
3 BRAINS
Many details of the brain map go with the topic.
There's a cleasr discussion and conclusion.
2 BRAINS
Few details of the brain map go with the topic.
There's a quitecleasr discussion and conclusion.
1 BRAIN
Details of the brain map do not go with the topic.
There's no cleasr discussion and conclusion.
Internet links
https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=BRAIN+FUNCTIONS&f.general_sub
ject=&f.sublevel=&f.alignment_standard=
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/15117/overview
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=1095617
& Rubrics
https://uwisdom.in/mind-mapping-techniques/. Additional activities
http://mrbakinsesl.pbworks.com/w/page/12702992/Cluster%20Diagrams%20for
%20Writing