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Beyond the Times Tables
Go beyond memorization with a collection of fun and innovative lessons about multiplication. Third, fourth, and fifth graders learn new ways to multiply amounts of items and rational numbers with creative apps, assignments, projects, and...
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, from genes to ecosystems, is the focus of a four-video collection hosted by Britt Garner. The narrator discusses biodiversity, evolution, defining intelligence, and other complex topics. As a bonus, she models how to break...
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Flipping Physics: AP Physics 1 Review
Flip the review of key concepts in Physics 1 with a series of videos designed to help viewers prepare for the AP exam. Topics covered include Kinematics, Dynamics (Newton’s 3 laws and friction); Work, Energy and Power; Linear Momentum...
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Memorization Should Not Be a Lost Art
Isn't it only fair that we share some of the tricks that we learned years ago?
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How We Learn
What's the best way to learn the elements of the periodic table? The inventions of Thomas Edison? Patience? To prepare for the performance task assessment on how people learn, class members share ideas about ways to learn in a variety of...
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Memory Skills
Students practice memorizing items. In this memory lesson, students look at a group of items for a set amount of time then the items are taken away. Students then try to remember the item that way taken away.
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AP Physics 1: Equations to Memorize
Saving the best for last, the final video in the series of 12 covers all of the equations young physicists should memorize because they are not on the equation sheet provided at the time of AP Physics 1 exam. This fast-paced video even...
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Sense, Sensibility and Sentences: Examining and Writing Memorable Lines
Involve your readers in finding works of literary genius. Have each individual write down compelling sentences that they read or hear, whether in a newspaper, advertisement, book, movie, song, or any other place! Once each person has a...
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Mnemonics
Are your students trying to memorize facts? Presidents? Or definitions? Use this video to teach students about mnemonics, a way to help students memorize. He focuses on acronyms and physical devices.
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Poetry Cubes
Middle schoolers develop an appreciation for different styles of poetry and learn different techniques for memorization.
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Pigs in a Pen
Kindergarteners explore numbers, counting, and one-to-one correspondence. Through demonstrations and hands on activities using math manipulatives, they discover several number concepts as well as practice counting throught rote...
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Memorable Ways to Cover the Periodic Table
An exploration of the periodic table can lead to a discussion of the scientific process and the ways that our knowledge of this topic evolves and grows.
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Exhibition Responsible Citizenship
While we hope our children may never have to witness a crime firsthand, give them the tools to recognize what is happening and respond accordingly. These activities help learners sharpen their observation and memory skills, as well...
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Beyond the Dictionary: Meaningful Word Study
Engaging lesson and activity ideas that grow pupils' word knowledge in all content areas.
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Deal or No Deal
Young scholars play a game in order to memorize any set of facts. In this memorization lesson, learners play an adaptation of the game Deal or No Deal to help them review and memorize factual information. Young scholars also work on math...
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As You Like It Word Plays
Students explore and analyze the sounds and shapes of the words used in Shakespeare's works They participate in a charades-like memorization exercise in which they create "word plays" for each of the words in the monologue.
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That’s so Meta(cognitive)!
Explicitly teaching metacognition strategies to pupils sometimes affects their learning potential. A PD video lesson from the Good Thinking series explores the concept and offers strategies for teachers to incorporate in their...
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Writing a Memorable Poem
Nascent poets carefully examine a color photograph and then respond to a series of questions. Using these responses, they craft a poem prompted by the image. A link to powerful photos is included so the exercise can be repeated.
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Fill-In: Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj is a pop and fashion icon to today's youth. Here, they will read an article about her and what she wore to the MTV Music Awards. They read the article, then attempt to fill in the missing words from several of the paragraphs....
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The Silly Pirate Song
There are so many ways to help our students build strong memory skills, one of which is to teach them a memory song. Sing this silly pirate song with your class. They will need to remember all of the things that interrupted the pirate....
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7's times tables
Make practicing the 7's times tables fun with this interactive quiz game. Each slide contains a 7's times table along with four possible answers, learners race to choose the correct one. Build memory skills, automaticity, and your...
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Would You Rather?
Get to know your class by asking them what they would rather do. There are 10 different sets of "would you rather" questions sure to encourage giggles and classroom camaraderie. Tip: Have peers build memory skills by attempting to...
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How to Use the Rules of Divisibility and Estimation
Number patterns help your kids learn divisibility and estimation rules. This activity aims to strengthen their math fact memorization skills by presenting several rules they are expected to memorize through practice.
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Keywords: A Memorization Strategy
Here is a fabulous, five-page lesson plan on how keywords can help a reader with his/her reading comprehension. After a teacher-led discussion, pupils pair off with each other and work together to identify the main idea in a passage of...
