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How Do You Memorize?. Memory. Storage and retrieval system/ re-creation Short-term memory and long-term memory Using strategies to memorize things (for short-term) – rote learning, singing, sorting, association, mnemonics - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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How Do You Memorize?
Memory
• Storage and retrieval system/ re-creation• Short-term memory and long-term memory• Using strategies to memorize things (for short-
term) – rote learning, singing, sorting, association, mnemonics
• Building meaning and significance (for long term) – discussing, note-taking, debating, teaching, applying, creating
The Loci Method
• The Method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises.
• The method of loci: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zUIw1ESbE
Five Great Lakes• Find them on a map• Become familiar with the names and locations• Reinforce your knowledge. Test yourself by
looking at an unlabeled map.
Five Great Lakes- mnemonic • Use the acronym 'HOMES.' Huron, Ontario,
Michigan, Erie, and Superior.• The mnemonic 'Super Man Helps Every One' lists
the lakes geographically from West to East.
What months have 30 days?
• There's a poem we had to learn in school: 30 days have september, april, june and november,all the rest have 31, except for february which has 28
(Not a poem exactly, but a little ditty to help remember this info)
What months have 30 days?
• Use your knuckles to remember each month's days
• Count the months on your knuckles and the grooves between your knuckles. Leave out your thumb knuckle. Every month that lands on a knuckle is 31 days, every month that lands on a groove between knuckles is 30 days (or 28 for February).
Remember Music Key Signatures
For the order of sharps and flats, respectively:
• GDAEBFC (sharps): Good dogs always eat biscuits for Christmas
• FBEADGC (flats): Fay Bought Eggs And Dan Got Candy
Memorize presidents from Abe Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) • Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) • Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) • Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) • James A. Garfield (1881) • Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) • Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) • Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) • Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) • William McKinley (1897-1901) • Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
Joe got his gun and chased his crazy mule.
• Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) • Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) • Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) • James A. Garfield (1881) • Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) • Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) • Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) • Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) • William McKinley (1897-1901)
Try it out!
Joe got his gun and chased his crazy mule.
The Six Pillars of the Character Education
• Trustworthiness• Respect• Responsibilities• Fairness• Caring• Citizenship
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