1. HOW TO REMEMBER MORE

2. Do you have a good memory?
Write down one thing that you are having difficulty remembering.
Keep this note and refer to it during this presentation.
Think about how you can use the ideas we will discuss to help you remember this item.

3. TOOL 1: Pay attention
Before you can remember anything, you need to pay attention to it in the first place.
You see and hear many things all the time.
You must focus on the things you want to remember.
Sensory memory--lasts a few seconds.

4. How well do you pay attention?
Which penny is the correct one?
References: Nickerson, R.S., and Adams, J.J. (1979). Long-term memory for a common object. Cognitive Psychology, 11, Weiten, Wayne (1995). Psychology: Themes and variations. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Second row, second coin

5. Short Term Memory Facts
Once you pay attention to something, think about it.
STM decides which information to throw away and which to send to long term memory.
Usually holds 7 pieces of information at a time.
Lasts three to twenty seconds.

6. TOOL 2: Reflect Reflect on new information within 24 hours.
Connecting new information to old is one way of reflecting that improves how much you will remember.

7. Long Term Memory Facts

8. How teachers use these facts
It is possible to keep retention at 80% with the following review intervals:
0 minutes Material presented
20 minutes Exercise on material
60 minutes Review questions at the end of the class
9 hours Homework assignment
24 hours Homework review
48 hoursScaffolding
6 days Quiz
31 days Mid-term
3 months Final exam

9. TOOL 3: Recode The brain likes organization.
Organize the things you want to remember for better storage.

10. Example Look at the following words for twenty seconds.
Try to memorize as many as you can.
apple car cherry
hammer pear pliers
train rose camel
orange wrench boat
lily squirrel tulip
daisy airplane saw
zebra lion

11. Write down as many words as you can remember.

12. Organizing the words would help
Fruit apple, orange cherry, pear
Tools hammer, saw, wrench, pliers
Transportation train, car, airplane, boat
Flowers lily, daisy, tulip, rose,
Animals zebra, squirrel, lion, camel

13. Try it with the following list of words.
nine red bed school restaurant blue two table three bank chair yellow park green couch ten desk twenty store pink

14. Grouping or chunking items to aid memorization has been used very effectively with dates and phone numbers.
Which is easier to remember:
or or
(909)

15. TOOL 4: Create a story
If you had to try to remember as many of the items shown below as possible or a long list of vocabulary, you could be much more successful if you created a story that used the items.

16. TOOL 5: Acronyms, Acrostics
Colors of the rainbow: Roy G. Biv
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
Planets: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nectarines
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptune

17. TOOL 6: Visualize To memorize the 5 causes of the
Civil War, visualize a baseball
field with each plate and the
pitcher’s mound representing a cause.
Home plate = railroad system
1st base = more money
2nd base = navy
3rd base = industry
Pitcher’s mound = more soldiers

18. TOOL 7: Catchy Phrases, Songs
Tongue twisters
Jazz Chants
Schoolhouse Rock tunes
Popular songs that illustrate a variety of grammar rules and idiosyncrasies, like “Bang, Bang” by Cher to review common irregular past tense verbs
Student- or teacher-created raps or songs, especially when set to the tune of well-known children’s songs or pop songs

19. OTHER TOOLS: Paraphrase Summarize Explain it to someone else
Fill in graphic organizers
Draw pictures
Write it over and over
Make flash cards
Take practice tests
moon
exploration
gravity
distance & dimension
atmosphere

20. OTHER SUGGESTIONS: Keep a positive attitude.
Take plenty of breaks while studying.
Neurons fatigue after 4 to 8 minutes.
Your focus time equals your age. (18 years old = 18 minutes of quality focus time before you need a break.)
Exercise and eat healthy food.
Get plenty of sleep and reduce stress in your life whenever you can.