The goal was to make it memorable. When we think back to childhood memories what makes things memorable? Connections to emotions, strong feelings, sights, sounds, smells... Don't want our students to file the information away in the "boring forget it in a week" place.
Response to the demonstration was very positive. Heard from a lot of parents at p-t conferences that this was the first thing their child wanted to share about with great enthusiasm when they got home from school.
Will assess for knowledge retention this week to find out if the method was effective and helped form real memories.
P.S.
I originally wrote this a couple of days ago and have since given a quiz on the content covered. The students did very well with no study time provided (on purpose) hopefully a memory has been created that leads to real long lasting learning.
Had some difficulty posting the video, so have put it on youtube, copy and paste the links below into your browser address bar, be sure to open a new window in your browser:
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