(Ages 7-8)
![Story Map 2nd Grade](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/02/Story-Map-2nd-Grade-1024x118.png)
![2nd Grade Denny the Dinosaur with glasses and a globe](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/03/Dino-2G07-1024x1024.png)
Brain Facts: My Brain Keeps Me Alive
This story talks about all the things that your brain does that helps you to stay alive.
![2nd Grade Rain the Rabbit covered in batter and holding a bowl](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/03/Bunny-2G07-1024x1024.png)
Social Health: Helping You Helps Me Too
This story describes how engaging in altruistic, prosocial behaviors helps everyone’s social health.
![2nd Grade PJ the Panda wearing a softball glove](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/03/Panda-2G07-1024x1024.png)
Physical Health: Exercise- Good for Your Body and Your Brain
This story describes how moving your body helps your muscles and your brain to stay healthy.
![2nd Grade Cort the Cat covered in string](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/03/Cat-2nd07-1024x1024.png)
Emotional Health: Being Afraid Can Help You- WHAT?!?
This story describes how fear can actually help you to learn and stay alive.
![2nd Grade Fran the Fox playing with a Rubik's Cube](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/03/Fox-2G07-1024x1024.png)
Cognitive Health: Lots of Ways to Learn
This story describes how the way that we learn changes as the world changes. Our ability to keep learning throughout our lifetime is what helps to keep our brain healthy.
![2nd Grade Axo the Axolotl wearing goggles and an inflatable ball](https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/mnf/files/2023/03/Axolotl-2G07-1024x1024.png)
Brain Health: A SPECtacular Trip to the Zoo
In this story, the children set out on a SPECtacular adventure to explore the “Brain Zoo.” By comparing the four major components of a healthy brain (Social, Physical, Emotional, & Cognitive) to exhibits in a zoo, they will develop a deeper understanding of their brains’ functions.