Every Body Has a Brainis a video game, 16 brain songs and website for 4-6 year olds funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health’s Small Business Innovation Research Program. The songs are available now as downloads on Amazon and iTunes and the game will be released in 2011.
A video shoot with 4 to 6 year olds; kids dancing in the Cerebellum; actors give life to our characters; mastering our brain songs.
It's all part of our creative process as Morphonix develops our latest game, Every Body Has a Brain.
The Songs
These sixteen songs from the video game Every Body Has a Brain, an interactive musical brain game, awaken children to the growing power of their brain. Musically enchanting, lyrically playful, the songs draw from a variety of styles to infuse kids with a sense of wonder about their brain and a mindfulness about caring for it. Each song teaches something new like the importance of protecting your brain and that you’re always using your brain. Along the way, kids learn what different parts of their brain do and that your brain helps you walk and talk and sing and play and a whole lot more!
The Game
You’ll meet Phoebe Brainheart, a girl who loves finding out new things about the brain – all kinds of brains! One day, Phoebe's pet computer mouse accidentally causes her brain parts to stop cooperating with one another. You go inside her brain to get the parts of her brain working together again.
Children visit the Cerebral Cortex, Cerebellum, Brainstem,and Hippocampus. Characters with names representing each brain part -- Sir Rebral Cortex and Sara Bellum, for example -- guide children through the activities and games.
The design of each game mirrors the content. For example, in the Cerebellum, games involve coordination and balance; in the Hippocampus, they engage memory; and in the Cerebral Cortex; they elicit creativity and problem solving.
In the process of playing children will:
• Gain a new sense of wonder and appreciation for their brain.
• Understand the basic structures and functions of the brain.
• Understand that all the parts of the brain work together.
• Realize that it's important to protect their brain.
• Appreciate what an amazing and vital organ the human brain is.
