Sleep
Introduction
Sleep is important for a healthy body, for healthy emotions, and for a healthy mind. Sleep helps enhance your learning and problem-solving skills, helps you pay attention, be creative, and make decisions. Not getting enough sleep can alter parts of your brain activity, making it hard to make decisions, solve problems, manage your emotions or behavior, and even coping with changes in your life. Sleep is super important for your entire life, and definitely important when you’re challenging yourself to learn every day.
Watch
- The benefits of a good night’s sleep - Shai Marcu: https://goo.gl/J2org5 Links to an external site. (YT 5:45)
- The importance of sleep for studying: https://goo.gl/qbXi8V Links to an external site. (YT 2:42)
Visit
- Exist:io: How Sleep Helps Us Learn New Skills: https://goo.gl/A8iscn Links to an external site.
- KQED News: Why Sleeping May Be More Important Than Studying: https://bit.ly/2U7G7Kr Links to an external site.
- NIH: Why Is Sleep Important?: https://goo.gl/TGyVNZ Links to an external site.
Key Ideas
- Sleep is essential for your brain to process and retain learning.
- Getting enough sleep can also help you manage your emotions and behavior.
- A lack of sleep has been shown to have dire effects on learning and emotional well-being.
Apply
- How much do you know about good sleep habits? Take this quick quiz. https://sleepfoundation.org/quiz/sleep-iq-quiz Links to an external site.
- Practice good sleep hygiene for a week and see how your sleep is affected: https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/sleep-hygiene Links to an external site.