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Memory Help

Memorization Tips to help Remember Names, Presentations, Speeches
Mnemonics

Memory List Activity
For each object think of a silly picture with the rhyming word for the number.
For example: If you are given a book as the first one think of a book burned by the sun.

When someone calls out number one think to yourself "sun" and you will recall the book being burned by the sun.

1 - SUN - OBJECT

2 - SHOE - OBJECT

3 - TREE - OBJECT

4 - DOOR - OBJECT

5- HIVE - OBJECT

6 - STICKS - OBJECT

7 - HEAVEN - OBJECT

8- GATE - OBJECT

9- SIGN - OBJECT


Mnemonic Devices

When my daughter was little she had some learning disabilities so I worked with her on funny mnemonic devices to help her.  She went on to graduate high school, college and graduate school with honors.

Social Studies Mnemonics

To help some students who had learning difficulties I would have them make up their own mnemonics for whatever they needed to study. For example I had them use CAM and PIP to remember: Cortez-Aztecs-Mexico and Pizarro-Incas-Peru.


Great Lakes
HOMES
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.


MAIN causes of World War I
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism


Math Mnemonics

Math Mnemonics Archive - Education World ®

 

 

 

Memory Techniques

Boosting Student Memory - YouTube @edutopia

Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It | Edutopia

Memory Improvement Techniques from Mind Tools

My Learning Students' Names page

Mempowered

How to Develop Your Child’s Memory - The Edvocate

8 Apps, Tools, and Resources That Will Improve Your Memory - The Edvocate

27 Ways To Enhance Student Knowledge Retention and Retrieval - The Edvocate


Mnemonic Devices

Mnemonic Devices for Students

Medical Mnemonics

Mnemonic - Store the Content You Want

3 Hacky Ways to Remember Things Immediately from Memory Athlete Brad Zupp


Science Mnemonics
 

Colors of the Spectrum
ROY G. BIV
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet.


Biology
Classification of living things
Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Variety.


Astronomy
Order of the planets from the sun
My Very Energetic Mom Just Served Us Nachos.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
(Note: Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet - See Astronomy page)

Planets

My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets.

Acronyms for oxidation and reduction
Oxidation Is Losing Electrons, Reduction Is Gaining Electrons: OIL RIG
Electron Loss Means Oxidation: ELMO
Losing Electrons Oxidation, Gaining Electrons Reduction:
LEO the lion. GER! or LEO says GER

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