MNEMONICIS How do you remember information Do you

MNEMONICIS

*How do you remember information? *Do you remember information easily, or do you struggle to remember information?

� *Have you ever used a song or rhyme, or any other “memory hook” to learn or remember information? � *What � *Do was the “memory hook”? you remember the information it was supposed to help you remember?

There are several different types of mnemonics: *Songs – Information to be remembered is set to music and made into songs. *Acronyms – The information to be remembered is abbreviated, utilizing only the first letter of each word, making a new word. *Acrostics – The first letter of each word in a list to be remembered is made into a new word. The new words then combine into a (usually) silly sentence. *Rhymes – Similar to songs, but without the music; just utilizes the patterns and cadence of rhythm.

WHAT ARE SOME YOU HAVE USED?

SONGS *The ABC song *“School House Rock” songs

ACRONYMS *ROY G. BV - The colors of the spectrum – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet

HOMES *The Great Lakes – Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

ACROSTICS *To remember the planets: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) *To remember the mathematical order of operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction) *To remember the first nine presidents of the United States: Would A Jolly Man Make A Jolly Visitor (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van. Buren)

� *To remember the lines in the treble cleff: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (EGBDF)

RHYMES *I before E, except after C. Or as sounding as A in neighbor and weigh. *Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except February, which has 28. *Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.