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Explore effective memory skills, learning styles, revision techniques, self-evaluation, and study skills through the CREATE method. Actively engage in information retention strategies to enhance learning outcomes and memory retention. Discover the power of elaboration and cognitive training in improving knowledge retention. Join us to maximize your learning potential today!
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Everlasting CREATE Year 8 Day 1Session 1
Learning 2 Learn: CVC Language of Learning (CREATE) We aim for all CVC learners to be:
Everlasting • Effectively using memory skills • Developing learning styles • Revising (well) • Self-evaluating • Transferring skills • Developing personal study skills
touch your left ear with your right hand cross your right leg over your left leg look at the person on your left say the numbers 357986421. And again! 357986421
Doing something actively whilst try to take in new information and then keep it there is widely thought to be much more effective that listening on its own. This additional activity serves as a ‘fixing agent’ and we have a higher chance of remembering the information . This could be:1. Taking notes of key words2. Organising the material by finding patterns3. Putting the key pieces of information into a story4. Repeating the key words in a distinctive way to yourself 5. Making anagrams yourself of the key words and making yourself work them out again The KEY is ELABORATION – making your brain work the knowledge – training the memory muscle
Elephants eat 72 to 158 kilograms of food each day. Baby elephants, called calves, weigh around 90 kilograms at birth. Elephant tusks are made of dentine, calcium and salt. The average lifespan of an elephant is 80 years. Elephants use more than 70 voice signals and 160 visual signals for daily communication. Elephants have the largest brains by mass of all mammals, weighing in at a hefty 10.5 pounds (4.7 kilograms) for an adult