Learning how to study:
“RETRIEVAL PRACTICE” 6 strategies for effective learning
How to draw to remember more
ORGANIZATION/NOTE TAKING:
- Graphic Organizers – Keep your ideas organized
- Printable graphic organizers from Pearson
- Students’ use of laptops in class lowers grades – Canadian Study
- How to prepare a bibliographic entry when citing a webpage
- Cornell NotesCornell Notes – Instructions
- Cornell Notes Blank printable template
- (1)Cornell Notes – 5 R’
- Cornell Notes
- Examples
- Rewriting Class Notes
- Keeping a notebook can help your students think and act like scientists.
1. Write in a legible colour; these notes were made using the Cornell note taking technique
2. highlight important words, ideas and concepts; don’t highlight everything
3. don’t write everything down
4. develop your own personal style and technique
5. keep your notes organized; use separate sections for each topic
CONCEPT MAPS
Please use linking words, color to keep ideas together, legend, central idea, ten images as guidelines for how to demonstrate your understanding. If you are still unclear check out the concept map at the end of this post, as it makes good use of color to connect ideas. DON’T FORGET TO USE LINKING WORDS.
Marking Rubric:
4 – Demonstrates full understanding through clear communication, use of color, linking words, and images. All significant ideas are included.
3 – Demonstrates good understanding through clear communication, use of color, linking words, and images One or two significant ideas may be missing.
2 – Demonstrates a basic understanding of concepts. Communication is usually clear and color, linking words and images are used, but not necessarily to communicate understanding of relationships.
1 – Minimal understanding is demonstrated. Color, linking words, and / or images may be used, but do not necessarily demonstrate understanding.
- Quick overview (White)
- How a concept map could be used with a topic such as the study of weather.See example >
- Here’s a more complex concept map from a study on bats.
See example > (40K PDF)*
- Sample 1 | Sample 2 | Sample 3
- Process concept map
DOODLE NOTES
Use the following links to help you to get started with your science notebook:
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Did you Know that the Average Person Remembers
90% of what they do, experience personally or teach someone else
70% of what they say or discuss with others (think study groups)
50% of what they see and hear
30% of what they see (Are you really want just to take a picture of those notes? However, drawing your own concepts maps for the chapter is a good visual tool. )
26% of what they hear (you can record yourself reading notes, ask yourself questions, pause, record reply and listen back to it all)
10% of what they read (within 24 hours, 90% of the material is lost! so just reading a textbook or notes before a test is not the best study strategy)
Please see more study tips here:
Study Smarter, Not Harder
Do you know how you learn best? Take this learning styles survey to find out:
- Learning Style Survey
- Find your strengths – how you are smart!
- MI Free Test
- Free Self-Assessments
- Tips for kinesthetic learners and here Tactile/Kinesthetic Learner
- Tips for Auditory Learner
Study Tips
STUDYING
REMEMBERING
TAKING TEST
General tips
- Answer the questions you find easiest first. Come back to the others later.
- Don’t spend more than a minute or two on any question. Come back to it later.
- Answer every question. There is no penalty for guessing.
- Be careful to mark only one answer choice per question.
- Consider all answer choices before you choose one. Use the process of elimination to narrow your choices.
ANSWERING DISCUSSION QUESTIONS, WRITING OBSERVATIONS, CONCLUSIONS AND PARAGRAPHS IN SCIENCE
Read this to find out how to get high scores on your assignments.
Writing in science
BASIC SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS
Please bring sufficient materials and supplies to each class such as:
– Textbook
– 2 working pens (blue or black), 1 red pen
– 2 sharpened pencils, pencil sharpener (optional), pen/pencil eraser
– 1 metric ruler (30 cm. long)
– lined paper (3 hole punched)
– Tracing and graphing paper (optional)
– One 1-inch three-ring binder (for science only)
– 1 package of reinforcements (for torn pages)
– 1 daily planner (supplied when you pay activity fee)
– Dividers to organize your binder if you share it with other subjects
– Colorful felt pens (optional)
– Colorful pencil crayons (optional)
Benefits of Lifelong Learning
EDUCATION
- Re-thinking the Value of Final Exams
- How Memory, Focus and Good Teaching Can Work Together to Help Kids Learn …” students cannot build more complex knowledge without information in their working memory.”
- Conquer yourself, conquer the world – Self-control over thought processes, emotions and behaviours, more than self-esteem, is a powerful predictor of success in living and working with others. Having self control is a predictor for better intimate relationships, trustworthiness, low likelihood for arrest, addiction and unplanned pregnancies