1. How to effectively remember information
Memory Skills
How to effectively remember information

2. Two levels of Memory
Short-Term: What you can keep in your attention in the moment. Most people can only remember five to nine different things in their short-term memory.
Long-Term: What you know and can bring to mind whenever you choose to do so.

3. “Moving Information”
You can ‘move’ information from your short-term memory into your long term by doing the following:
Grouping Information – to organize it so that details are brought together under the main idea or category that connects them.
For example: Studying geography you could group things by province.

4. “Moving Information” Con’t
Visualizing Information – to see an image or picture of it in your mind’s eye.
For example: you can see a mental picture of an idea or event.
Repeating Information – to put information in your own words and go over it.
For example: say it aloud to yourself or someone else.

5. “Moving Information” Con’t
Choosing to remember – paying attention when learning and making an effort to remember what is important.
For example: using all of the above to learn, when learning something like a name of a person repeating it over and over again.

6. MNEMONICS
Mnemonics is a fancy word that means “the art of remembering”.
Mnemonic strategies are ways of remembering more efficiently.

7. MNEMONICS The following are different mnemonic strategies:
Word Links – Use the meaning of one word to associate with another.
For example: The capitol of Oregon is Salem (Think – there are many sailboats in Oregon because it’s on the ocean. What do you do with these boats? Sail-em!)

8. MNEMONICS
Acronyms – Using the first letter of each word to make another shorter word to remember.
For example, the five great lakes could be:
H – Huron
O – Ontario
M – Michigan
E – Erie
S – Superior
= HOMES

9. MNEMONICS
Acrostics – Make up a new sentence using the first letter of each word.
For example, The music staff – EGBDF could be Every Good Boy Does Fine.

10. MNEMONICS Rhymes – creating little rhymes to remember things.
For example, “Mary had a little lamb…” or “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”

11. Other MNEMONIC Strategies
Mental Pictures
Create an Experience
Hook-ups
Write It!
Talk it!
Mind Map

12. A funny…..

13. How many can you remember?

14. Activity
Do the activities on your worksheet.