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Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Pre Assessment

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The brain has unique physical characteristics and it is specialized into many different areas, each with a different job. Brain functions and abilities develop over time. Assess student's knowledge of the structure of the brain by having them complete a pre-assessment that measures how much they already know.

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emotions, memory, movement

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brain, learning, reasoning, senses, thinking, the brain: pre assessment

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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