Lesson: Organization of the Nervous System Biology • Second Year of Secondary School

Students will be able to

• describe the structural organization of the nervous system as central and peripheral systems,
• recall that the central nervous system includes the brain and the spinal cord,
• describe the organization of the peripheral nervous system as consisting of the sensory (afferent) and motor (efferent) divisions,
• describe the functional organization of the motor division of the peripheral nervous system into somatic and autonomic nervous systems.