MTU FUN FACTS
Barbara Oakly, PhD
10 steps text and lecture
HODGE PODGE
More Class Questions
100

Festival held in the snow

What is Winter Carnival?

100

Letting your brain wander when trying to think of something.

What is diffused thinking?

100

You can use all of the suggested tactics to pay better attention in class, but they won't work if you leave out one of these conditions. Name at least one.

What are adequate sleep, good nutrition or adequate exercise? 

100

Donald Ducks Girlfriend

Who is Daisy Duck

100

Outline, Cornell, Mind map, Flow, ....

What are note taking methods

200

Year MTU founded

What is 1885

200

This can act just like an addictive behavior.

What is procrastination?

200

When you state exactly what you want to learn

What is a learning objective

200

The four houses at Hogwarts.

Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, & Slytherin

200

2 hours for every credit hour.

What are the recommended number of hours to study every week.

300

The first name of MTU

What is Michigan Mining School?

300

Looking in the same neural path over and over again in an attempt to retrieve a piece of information.

What is focused mode of thinking.

300

Set an appointment, prepare a list of questions, state what you already know, ask for specific help, do not ask for a relecture......

Where is office hours etiquette?

300

The Beatle who is barefoot on the Abbey Road album cover?

Who is Paul McCartney

300

Active text book reading strategy.

What is SQ3R? (or you can earn these points by giving a strategy from pages 22-25 in our text)

400

The first location of MTU when founded?

What the original Houghton Fire Hall or the Continental Fire building?

400

The act of Self testing

What is it called when you check your learning or recall?

400

Levels of learning from the simplest to the most complex

What is Blooms Taxonomy?

400

The first console video game that allowed the game to be saved

What is The Legend of Zelda?

400

Key ingredient in an optimum study environment?

What are people who are serious about yours and their own studying.

500

the first year that snow statues were included as a part of Winter Carnival?

What is 1936

500

This part of your brain can only hold about four pieces of information.

What is working memory or short term memory or pre-frontal cortex?

500

Missed lecture notes, missed application of your own background knowledge, missed hours of learning, not using what you paid for, missed test cues, lower course grade.

What are the outcomes of missing class sessions.

500

The gland in the human body that regulates metabolism.

What is the thyroid gland.

500

When everyone in a group is sure that someone else in the group is going to act causing no one in the group to act.

What is the bystander effect. (don't let this happen in your group projects.)

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