Sleep
This is the cycle of sleep in which your brain paralyzes you.
What is REM?
This is the two-minute rule.
What is if something will take less than two minutes to do, do it--do it RIGHT NOW.
Your brain is made up of billions of these tiny cells that have to form certain types of pathways with each other to create every thought and memory.
What are neurons and neural pathways?
You will learn much more if you take notes this way instead of typing.
What is writing things down with your own hand?
What is multi-tasking?
These are some of the things that can happen if you don't consistently get at least eight hours of sleep.
What are lower test scores, impaired memory, increased hunger, damaged immune system, and emotional dysregulation?
This is instead of "I have to finish my homework," thinking "I'll work until 4 on my homework."
What is time over task?
This is the only reliable way WE CONTROL that moves information into long-term memory.
What is repetition?
This note-taking method uses a divided page with a narrow left column for questions or keywords, a wider right column for notes, and a summary at the bottom.
What are Cornell notes?
This can hold 5-9 things at once and gets overloaded really easily.
What is working or short-term memory.
This is how much sleep older children and adolescents need.
What is 9 to 12 hours? (Older teens need 8 to 10.)
This activity allows us to see just how much time we spend on routine tasks and helps us see where we're wasting time.
What is time-tracking?
This is the area of the brain that stores long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus? (Will also take pre-frontal cortex not the same thing but part of long-term memory/thinking)
It doesn't matter if other people can understand it, it just matters that you can.
What is writing things down in your own hand?
According to this, you forget most information within the first few hours of learning it.
What is the forgetting curve?
These important things happen during deep sleep.
What is the brain sorts and stores new information into long-term memory, the glymphatic system removes waste, and physical healing is most efficient?
These crucial concepts help you think about how much time you have now, and how much time you have later.
What are time horizon and future awareness?
These are the three ways to make memories last for the long term.
What is urgency, association, and repetition?
These can help you follow along with a plot.
What is Freytag's pyramid (plot triangle or character sketch)
This is what SCUBA stands for.
What is Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus?
These are all healthy sleep habits that promote consistent sleep.
What are establishing a Consistent Sleep Schedule, doing calming Activities Before Bed, avoiding screens 1–2 hours before sleeping, optimizing your sleep environment, keeping your bedroom cool, dark, and quiet, limiting sleep disrupters, being physical activity during the day, morning sunlight exposure, writing worries down, and making to-do lists for the following day?
These old-fashioned timepieces allow the user to see the movement of time.
What are analog clocks?
These are the three ways to practice repetition.
What are retrieval practice, spaced practice, and interleaving?
Mrs. Hazzard thinks the key to learning is found in this.
What is writing things down in your own hand.
This is the name given to those memory aids like acronyms, rhymes, songs, or visual images that help us remember information more easily.
What is a mnemonic device?