Study and Organizational Tips...
Your brain likes color...use color coded highlighters and/or note cards to organize important items. For example,
Your brain also likes patterns, rhymes and pictures.
"CHUNK" material to be studied
Use mnemonics (hooks) to remember important information
- pink for important PEOPLE
- yellow for important vocabulary words
- green for important places
- orange for inventions or contributions
- blue for important dates
Your brain also likes patterns, rhymes and pictures.
- create or use rhymes to help in remember information (the ABC song)
- draw or use pictures to help in remembering information (draw a house to represent early settlements in villages)
- create or use graphic organizers to help in remembering information (Venn Diagram to compare 2 items)
- repetition is critical in recalling information (make flash cards to review for 5 minutes daily)
"CHUNK" material to be studied
- A teenage brain can remember 7+- 2 items at a time, so break large amounts of material into similar groups. This way, your brain sees the "chunk" of information as 1 item instead of individual facts
- Study one "chunk" of material each night instead of waiting until the night before a test
Use mnemonics (hooks) to remember important information
- Connect new information to "old" previous knowledge by seeing a similarity (new--Thespis was 1st Greek actor old--the English word "thespian" means actor or restaurante in Spanish means restaurant in English)
- Acronym is using the first letter of items to create a new word (ROYGBIV--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet)
- Use humor or a funny item to remember the information (Fajita pronounced like Fa-j-eye-tah)