Big Thinkers

The Honors Anatomy class at Fuqua School has been studying the human nervous system, more specifically, the brain. Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges Sears, upper school science teacher, had the students make “Thinking Caps” to teach the students spatially how their brains lie in their heads. Each cap was molded out of papier-mâché on top of a balloon. The caps portray the lobes of the brain: the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe. The students chose their own color scheme to represent the different lobes. When the students put on their “Thinking Caps”, the caps mirror the lobes of the brain.

Pictured (l-r) front row: Olivia Keck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Keck of Hampden-Sydney; Mary Denaro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Denaro, III of Farmville; Alexandra Trent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Raymond of Rice; back row: Taylor Cunningham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Cunningham of Farmville; Sierra Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Swyhart of Amelia; Alexandra Mottley, daughter of Mr. Kirby Mottley of Farmville; Lucy Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wallace of Drakes Branch; Sommer Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Frank of Cumberland; Anna Morrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Morrow of Dillwyn