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TASK 3: SUPER MEMORY
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Background Information:

A well-known trick for memorising lists is to associate items on the list with other ideas. The goal is to maximise the number of pathways to the memory. Such a trick is called a mnemonic (say, new-mon-ick) device.

Mnemonics work by forming many paths to a single memory. For example, you can take the first letter of each word in a list you need to remember and make a sentence out of words with those letters. Some examples follow:

Compass directions: **North,** **East,** **South,** **West:** **Never** **Eat** **Soggy** **Weetbix**

The colours of the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). e.g. Roy G. Biv. Maybe you can find out a bit about who he is!!! Record info in your Home Study books.

The meaning of 'mnemonics': e.g. Mnemonics Neatly Eliminate Man's Only Nemesis - Insufficient Cerebral Storage

You can also try making up a story about a list of words. For example, let's say you have to remember four things - an apple, a pie pan, a dog and a jump rope. You could make up a story like this: A woman was going to bake an apple pie. While she looked for her pie pan, her dog ate one of the apples. When she discovered an apple missing, she tied the dog to a tree with a jump rope.

Imagine you have to remember these things to bring to school on Monday: green slip, apple for lunch, internet licence, camp form, money for fuel ticket, homework diary and spelling notebook. Come up with a mnemonic or a story that will help you remember what you have to bring to school on Monday! click here to go back to Home Study Week 3 Term 1 main page
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