mnemonics
Mnemonics are devices to help us remember ( memory aide). They come in many varieties and flavors, and can aid memorization of many types of information.
Mnemonics are devices to help us remember ( memory aide). They come in many varieties and flavors, and can aid memorization of many types of information.
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Mnemosyne (in mythology) was
a titan (a giant who was sort of like a goddess)
who was the personification of memory.
[nee-mos-uh-nee, -moz-]
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Here are some examples of Mnemonics.
Rhymes:
"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
"I before E, except after C, or when sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh."
Five Freedoms in the First Amendment (Rap it!)
"Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be
Freedom of Religion and Assembly,
Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,
Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."
Acronym: a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as WAC from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or LORAN from long-range navigation.
Did you Know?
An acronym is pronounced as a word — NASA, SCUBA, SWAT — but what some people call acronyms are usually initialisms. These acrological abbreviations are pronounced by saying the letters individually. DNA, IRS, DKNY — all acrological initialisms.
Who knows what each of these Acronyms stands for?
Acronym: DUDE
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How some canyons (Such as the Grand Canyon) are formed --
D: Depostion/ Deposit
U: Uplift
D: Down Cutting
E: Erosion
Acronym: BICUM =
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Be in control, use metacognition.
Acronym: NASA =
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Acronyms: SCUBA =
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Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Acronym: SEAL
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Sea, Air, and Land
Acronym: SWAT =
Answer: Special Weapons And Tactics
Acronym: POTUS=
Answer: President of the United States
Acronym: SEAL
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Sea, Air, and Land
Acronym: SWAT =
Answer: Special Weapons And Tactics
Acronym: POTUS=
Answer: President of the United States
Acronym: HOMES =
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The Five Great Lakes = Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
Acronym: AWOL =
Answer: Absent Without Leave
Acronym: SONAR
Answer: SOund NAvigation Radar
Acronym: AWOL
Answer: Absent WithOut Leave
Acronym: AWOL =
Answer: Absent Without Leave
Acronym: SONAR
Answer: SOund NAvigation Radar
Acronym: AWOL
Answer: Absent WithOut Leave
Acronym: FACE =
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The space notes in the treble clef = F, A, C, E
Acronyms: ROY G. BIV =
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You know these!
You know these!
The colors of the rainbow =
Acronym: SKILL =
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Organs in the excretory system = skin, kidneys, intestines, liver, lungs
Acrostics: Acrostics support recall by creating an entire sentence with
the first letter of each word being the prompt for the to-be-recalled
information.
For example: The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety
An acrostic for that could be = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet.
How many of these do you know?
Every Good Boy Does Fine =
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lines of the treble clef
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Who can tell what they are -- in order?
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"Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, and Addition and Subtraction".
or
My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos.
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= the Planets in Our Solar System
Who can recite them?
And did you use a sentence to help you remember how to spell the word "because"?
Other Types of Mnemonics
Songs: Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah?
Peg System:
Follow this Link and use the Peg System to memorize these:
Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights
Use this and other study strategies
to learn the topics for the first ten amendments.
There are other types of mnemonics, but we won't go through them today.
amendments in the Bill of Rights, using ideas from the PEG SYSTEM.
- Practice reducing and retaining by illustrating the items you need to know.
- Check off your drawings with the teacher. Then take them and use them to study for the test.
Peg System:
1. Bun – Picture a bun wrapping about the first amendment:
"Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be
Freedom of Religion and Assembly,
Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,
Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."
2. Shoe – Picture a Bear wearing shoes – The right to bear arms.
3. Tree – It’s a quarter tree – You don’t have to quarter soldiers.
4. Door – You don’t have to let them in unless they have a valid search warrant. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5. Hive -- Bees are buzzing in your ears saying, “Tell us what you did! Admit you’re guilty!”
Freedom from self-incrimination (due process of law)
6. Sticks – Chasing the judge with sticks demanding the right to a speedy trial.
7. Heaven – Picture a jury box full of jurors up on a cloud (in heaven). This is the right to a trial by jury.
8. Gate – It would be cruel and unusual for someone to slam a person’s hand in a gate.
This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.
9. Line – Stand in the RIGHT line to get your Individual RIGHTS. Many individuals would be standing there.
10. Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS.
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| Student Example |
Here is some more information if you would like to look at it on your own:
Loci System: Select a place you know well
Try using the Loci system to memorize the first ten Presidents of the United States.
| President | Party | Term as President | Vice-President |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. George Washington (1732-1799) | None, Federalist | 1789-1797 | John Adams |
| 2. John Adams (1735-1826) | Federalist | 1797-1801 | Thomas Jefferson |
| 3. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | Democratic-Republican | 1801-1809 | Aaron Burr, George Clinton |
| 4. James Madison (1751-1836) | Democratic-Republican | 1809-1817 | George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry |
| 5. James Monroe (1758-1831) | Democratic-Republican | 1817-1825 | Daniel Tompkins |
| 6. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) | Democratic-Republican | 1825-1829 | John Calhoun |
| 7. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) | Democrat | 1829-1837 | John Calhoun, Martin van Buren |
| 8. Martin van Buren (1782-1862) | Democrat | 1837-1841 | Richard Johnson |
| 9. William H. Harrison (1773-1841) | Whig | 1841 | John Tyler |
| 10. John Tyler (1790-1862) |
Loci is from the same root as Location.
Select a place that you know well, and as you move through it in your mind, place the items you are learning, or a representation of each, in specific places.
For instance, for learning the first few Presidents of the United States, imagine walking into your house.
For me, as I walk in through the side door,
1) I first see my kitchen, and there is George Washington washing my dishes.
2) I walk into the front hall, and there is a man with a large Adam's apple --John Adams.
3) I turn into the living room, and there is Thomas Jefferson, inventing and drawing plans for a building (he was an inventor and architect).
4) As I walk up the stairs, on the stairs I see a bunch of boxes of Dolly Madison cakes. (James Madison was the next president.)
5) Then I look into the bedroom, and there on the bed is Marilyn Monroe. (James Monroe is the fifth president.
6) In bathroom is a man rinsing off his hands in the sink. (Rinsey rhymes with Quincy) who asks me, "Did you see my dad in the hall downstairs?" This is the son of John Adams -- John Quincy Adams.8. In the third bedroom I see a bureau (chest of drawers),
with Martin Van Buren filling the drawers with his Doc Martens.
9. As I walk back downstairs, and on down the next set of stairs, there in the family room is my son, repairing my computer (which is what he often does), but today he is a "hairy son." He has let his hair grow out, and his beard grow long. (William H. Harrison)
10. In the laundry room, my daughter is tying clothes together for John Tyler.
And that's the first ten presidents.
Mini-Stories:
Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary or spelling.
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| The Principal is your Pal. |
Memorize the Presidents -- Story
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