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On the Third Day of Christmas

…Whitehead Learning Group gave to me a new way to study!

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WLG Christmas Gift 3: Tell a tale. Turning the details you need to recall into a silly story helps! Research shows that mnemonic devices are a proven strategy to train the brain to recall information. 

Some of our favorites: 

  1. To remember the order of taxa in biology (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genius, Species, Variety)— Do Kindly Place Cover On Fresh Green Spring Vegetables


  2. PEMDAS in Math (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction)—Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally


  3. 10 organ systems of the human body in Anatomy (Nervous, Integumentary, Circulatory, Endocrine, Respiratory, Digestive, Reproductive, Urinary, Muscular, Skeletal)—NICER DRUMS


  4. The names of Henry VIII’s wives (Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard, Parr)—All Boys Should Come Home Please.


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