When students move while learning, they put information in procedural or muscle memory. Procedural memory is one of the strongest memory systems in …
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20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain: #9 Mnemonic Devices
IVAN CAPP: Interjection, Verb, Adjective, Noun, Conjunction, Adverb, Pronoun, Preposition (Language arts) HONC if you’re alive! Hydrogen, Oxygen, …
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20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain: #8 Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes
I was teaching the story When Charlie McButton Lost Power to a third-grade class in Mesquite, Texas. The curricular objective was for students to …