WiredMind · Student worksheet · Lesson 1
How a fly remembers a smell
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Open the lesson at: wiredmind.app/en/modules/smell-memory
1PredictBefore you tap anything.
A smell enters at the antennae. Which color do you think will light up last?
What do you think will happen to the pink cells if the blue cells are switched off?
2Try
Open the lesson and follow its steps. Before each tap, say out loud what you think will happen.
3ObserveFor each step: which colors lit up, and which stayed dark?
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4Explain
The lesson’s question: You silenced the Kenyon cells (the blue cells). Why did the pink cells go dark?
Why did the pink cells go dark when you silenced the blue cells, even though the smell still got in?
Where in this circuit do scientists think the memory of a smell is stored?