YOU

All About Your Brain!

Who Am I?
Unit 1 - H95804 - Lesson 1
Self Development for the world of work
Certificate in Employability Skills
November 5, 2015

Have you ever thought about how to

effectively use your brain?
Have

you ever thought about your brain or

do you take it for granted?
Is it a powerful tool?
Is there any good way to use your brain?
Can you give examples of how you used
your brain without formal learning?
When in trouble, how do you find a
solution?

Engage?
Pair

up, discuss, decide

In what way can you start thinking or
engaging your brain?
CARDs
ONE

idea per card

Volunteers to group the ideas under
title cards.

Can references be found?

Answers

to such type of questions?

Who am I?
How does my brain work?, etc.
Where?
Internet? Google? How?
Holy Scriptures? The Bible, the
Torah, The Quran?

Sample references from Scripture

How

can we find answers?

Can we, for example, search for the
answers in the Holy Quran?
How would we search? Keywords?
Use the keyword intelligence
Searching in the English translation
by Yusuf Ali
We

can use search software such as

Alim or go to websites

The Quran: Sample search result:

It is He Who brought you forth from the wombs of
your mothers when you knew nothing; and He gave
you hearing and sight and intelligence and affections:
so that perhaps you may be grateful. [Quran, YA:
16:78]

Discuss

with your partner what could

this verse mean?
Would you have further questions?

Question: Who has made your brain?

If you dont
trust Him,
does it
means He is
a poor
Maker?
Should you trust and rely on Him?
Should you be grateful?

Models/Steps of Brain Use

Pair

up, discuss, decide

How can I best use my brain?
Do the Title cards of your ideas
suggest ways to use your brain?
One

volunteer to draw and explain

his/her model on the board.
All others to compare their models and
improve their models if needed.

Challenge?
Is

it important to use your brain

efficiently and effectively?
Using your model or otherwise can
you apply your brain to a question/s?
Who am I?
What

would make me happy?

How would I achieve my happiness?
What obstacles may stand in my way?

How?
Would you write your answers as a
List?
Or as a Diagram?

Central idea?

Add a question branch for

AnswerWho
Who?
Amwith
I? keywords in sub branches

Add another main question branch for

What
would answers
make as
mesubHappy?
Then add keyword
branches to
answer the question

Now add further main branches ++

Class to break up into 5 groups.
Discuss with group members and extend the main
branches with as many sub-branches as you want.
Present your diagram to the rest of the class.

Each group to compare their

diagram with the diagram
made by the teacher.

Find differences and similarities

extend your own diagrams

Homework Assignment
Use a poster to draw your own personal
Me diagram
Add the four branches, Who, Happy, How
and Obstacles.
Take a picture, upload and explain your
four and any additional branches on
Facebook. Add any references you find.
Comment on any diagram of your friends