MTU FUN FACTS
Festival held in the snow
What is Winter Carnival?
Letting your brain wander when trying to think of something.
What is diffused thinking?
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?
Donald Ducks Girlfriend
Who is Daisy Duck
Outline, Cornell, Mind map, Flow, ....
What are note taking methods
Year MTU founded
What is 1885
This can act just like an addictive behavior.
What is procrastination?
When you state exactly what you want to learn
What is a learning objective
The four houses at Hogwarts.
Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, & Slytherin
2 hours for every credit hour.
What are the recommended number of hours to study every week.
The first name of MTU
What is Michigan Mining School?
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.
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?
The Beatle who is barefoot on the Abbey Road album cover?
Who is Paul McCartney
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)
The first location of MTU when founded?
What the original Houghton Fire Hall or the Continental Fire building?
The act of Self testing
What is it called when you check your learning or recall?
Levels of learning from the simplest to the most complex
What is Blooms Taxonomy?
The first console video game that allowed the game to be saved
What is The Legend of Zelda?
Key ingredient in an optimum study environment?
What are people who are serious about yours and their own studying.
the first year that snow statues were included as a part of Winter Carnival?
What is 1936
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?
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.
The gland in the human body that regulates metabolism.
What is the thyroid gland.
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.)