Know your brain!

Know your brain

Know your brain! is the interesting follow-up to the popular picture book Your Fantastic Elastic Brain. It gives teenagers fun insights into how their brain works and grows. A free lesson plan has been developed for teachers for this book: see https://bazalt.nl/lesplan-brein/.

What do you know about your brain? That your brain resembles a walnut? That it works faster than the fastest supercomputer? But how does it work?

Your brain grows and develops. Now that you are a teenager, everything in your body is changing. Your brain is also changing. You will start to like different things than when you were little. And you will suddenly understand difficult things better. Some things are just harder to grasp. Like intense feelings when you start puberty. And why you might always want to sleep in. The good news is that you yourself influence the development of your brain. For example, by taking good care of yourself, learning many new things, and not giving up when it gets difficult, you can strengthen your brain.
In this book, you will read how changes in your brain occur and what you can do about them. This way, you can get the most out of it!

Age indication: 9 years and older

How do you get young people excited to read about how their brain works? Give them this book and they will be interested! A clear, engaging, clearly written and richly illustrated book that will appeal to many young people.
- Léone Heideman, Head of Policy and Advice at De Haagse Scholen