1. Brain Based tool to help review information and store it in long term memory

2.  Take 2 mins to write down how you study, review- generally how you get LARGE amounts of info in your lovely little heads so you can get it back out later…  Take 1 min each to discuss with partner…Jedis talk first, Empire listen first…after 1 min switch  Bringing out ideas to the floor…

3.  This is what a Mind Map looks like…

4.  The brain processes information very similar to the way the mind map looks…in stems  The brain makes connections to information in this same format…

5.  Can ONLY be 5 stems (Brain can only process limited amt. of info at a time)  MUST have colors (colors help to categorize and associate)  MUST have symbols (remember that only 25% of semantic [words] information gets stored in long term memory) This is 10 years worth of work by Dr. Jeff Sapp, Professor at CSUDH

7.  I need someone to suggest a topic that everyone knows about already to help practice…  I need a board volunteer  Let’s now break this topic apart into 5 parts  One stem at a time let’s add COLOR and SYMBOL  You’ve now created in your first map

8.  Working in partners, create a mind map for something we’ve studied here in class…anything we’ve looked at so far  You have 10 minutes to make a basic mind map, so pick something that is not too complicated

9. Take 3 mins to write down the following:  Things that worked and that you like about this tool  Challenges to the tool that you can foresee being a problem If this works for you…how can you use it? If this doesn’t work for you…explain why not?