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Teaching What Is a Brain Freeze?

What Is a Brain Freeze?

Has this ever happened to you? You’re eating a delicious ice cream cone or frozen lemonade, so cold and sweet and suddenly, bam, brain freeze! What happened?

Tyler Daniel Anderson-Sieg, Doctoral Student in Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina
The Conversation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Why is a brain freeze painful?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

1,3
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