The Brain Health: It’s SPECtacular program consists of 42 stories divided into 7 grade levels (pre-kindergarten through 5th grade). Each grade level has 6 stories based on 6 components – Brain Facts, Social Health, Physical Health, Emotional Health, Cognitive Health and Brain Health.
Grade Level | Brain Facts | Social Health | Physical Health | Emotional Health | Cognitive Health | Brain Health |
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Pre-Kindergarten (ages 4-5) | Do I Really Have a Brain? | Me and You | What is Physical Health All About? | What is your Face Doing? | I Have an Idea | Keeping Your Brain Healthy is Spectacular |
Kindergarten (ages 5-6) | Team Work | What Do I Do? | Your Tummy Helps Your Brain—Really? | What am I Feeling? | Talents: Everyone Has One | A Healthy Brain is Spectacular |
1st Grade (ages 6-7) | Are Bigger Brains Better? | I Can Do it! | Your Sleeping Brain is Hard at Work | Your Brain Wants you to be Happy | Do You Know what I Know? | A Spectacular Way to Take Care of your Brain |
2nd Grade (ages 7-8) | My Brain Keeps Me Alive | Helping You Helps Me Too | Exercise—Good for Your Body and Brain | Being Afraid Can Help You—What? | Lots of Ways to Learn | A Spectacular Trip to the Zoo |
3rd Grade (ages 8-9) | How Your Brain and Body Talk | Lean on Me | Sleep Basics | I Want it Now!! | Why Can’t I Remember? | A Spectacular Way to Think Outside the Box |
4th Grade (ages 9-10) | Be Nice to Your Brain | I Can Handle It… I Got It | Move it or Lose it | I Am Sooo Stressed Out! | The World As We Know It | It’s a Spectacular Jungle Out There |
5th Grade (ages 10-11) | The Brain Changes All the Time | Social Media: Be Real and Healthy | Eat Right–What Does That Mean? | Do Drugs Make Me Happy? | Making Decisions | Importance of Spectacular Brain Health in Adolescence |