We began learning about the nervous system today. Atticus viewed a short video of a surfer surfing. He completed a balancing and movement exercise to explore how keeping our eyes open affects our balance. This exercise is intended to get Atticus thinking about how vision influences balance, and therefore how our sense organs are integral to our nervous system. We then created a model for messages sent throughout the body. We asked a group of people at the front desk to participate in creating our nerve signaling model by forming a line, linking hands and squeezing their neighbor’s hand after their neighbor before them squeezed their hand. This simulates how an electrical signal from the brain travels down a nerve in the body.