How to Study

Learning Styles There is not one magical study strategy for every student. Students learn differently and as a result need to study differently. In order to study effectively every student should determine their individual learning style. Learning style is defined as: a biologically and developmentally imposed set of personal. characteristics that make the same learning methods effective for some and ineffective for others.

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Once you understand your learning style, you are more likely to be successful in meeting your needs in the classroom. A student’s learning style is the same no matter the subject area. A key to learning and memory is to study the information in the form that the brain can learn most easily. The more a student can utilize learning through the combination of visual, auditory, and haptic styles, the more permanent the information will become.

Memory Your mind is built to remember. It never forgets or loses anything throughout your entire life. We say we “forget“ when actually we have lack of recall due to memory blocks or the misplacement of information. It is a natural tendency to remember only those things or concepts with which we agree or deem important. We simple pay more attention the ideas and information we intend to remember or relate to our own life.

There are many techniques and strategies which can enable you to memorize and recall almost anything. If you focus your concentration and are intent on remembering information, you will succeed. Realize that you can improve your memory. Don’t waste time making excuses, use that time to your advantage.

When studying Social Studies, reading through your notes is not enough. I recommend the self-questioning technique. After a student has read through an article, notes or any other text, they are to answer the following questions in order to build their background knowledge about the subject matter: Who? What? Where? When? in order to answer the more important questions Why? and How?

who what where when why how 1. Who is the article about? 2. What is the article about? 3. Where do the events of the article take place? 4. When did the events of the article take place? 5. Why is this important? 6. How does this affect us today?

Hammurabi About 1700 BCE, a new king in the Mesopotamian city of Babylon managed to pull all the scattered cities back together into one empire, the Babylonian Empire. His name was Hammurabi(ham-oor-AH-bee). Hammurabi’s goal was to bring everyone in his empire together, and make them all feel like they were part of this new project together. One thing he did was to issue a law code that would be the same for all the people in the Babylonian Empire. This is called the Code of Hammurabi, and we still have copies of it today. Under Hammurabi, the Babylonian Empire was very strong, but under his children and grandchildren the empire got weaker, until eventually it collapsed like all of the earlier empires in the Fertile Crescent.

Build your background knowledge Who: King Hammurabi What: Established the first set of laws (Hammurabi’s code) Where: Babylon, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent When: 1700 BCE Why is Hammurabi’s Code important? Created a set of laws that were accessible to everyone throughout the empire. How does it affect us today? It was the first code of laws that informed a society of their legal rights and responsibilities; like the United States Constitution.