Read Works
Read Works: Alzheimer's Disease: The Mind Robber
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the symptoms and prognosis for Alzheimer's Disease. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Memories Good and Bad
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about memories and how they react to sensory stimuli. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Researchers Beginning to Better Understand False Memory Formation
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about research showing how the brain can create very realistic false memories. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Healthline Media
Medical News Today: What Is Amnesia?
Amnesia is the loss of memory. Learn what the causes can be, the different types, the symptoms, how it is diagnosed, and what the treatments are.
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Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Everyday Science of Your Brain [Pdf]
Help your middle schoolers understand the function of the brain in both short-term and long-term memory. This lesson plan allows students to test different strategies for improving memory.
Other
St. John's University: Remembering What You Read
This site from St. John's University explains some effective strategies for remembering what you read. Gives tips on creating associations that greatly increase reading memory. RI.11-12.10a & b Text Complexity
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Exercise and Memory
Can exercise really help our brain work better? This PBS site discovers if this is really true by taking you into the worlds of Jada and Maurna to find out.
Other
Nicky Case: How to Remember Anything Forever Ish
Having trouble memorizing all the information you need for your classes? This site offers a way to make memorizing quick and easy! It's called spaced repetition and is a habit that can be employed in situations throughout life. Practice...
US Food and Drug Administration
U.s. Food and Drug Administration: Aromatherapy
This government agency article states its view of aromatherapy and the claims of its effectiveness in promoting health.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Pokemon Aficionados Help Scientists Prove Practice Makes Perfect
Using Pokemon, Weiwei Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside, wanted to learn the connection between the short-term- or working memory- and long-term memory.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Concentration Circle
Lesson outlining a classroom activity where students are required to remember numbers that have been called and participate accordingly.
Other
Alzheimer's Society: Risk Factors and Prevention
An informative look at dementia, including causes,the different kinds, and treatments that are out there.
Other
Web Reference: Rough It Up: Production Graphics
An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recordkeeping and History
Although many species note the passing of time, only our own species, Homo sapiens, is capable of sharing accounts, or memories, of past events and turning these into stories or "histories." This article traces the development of written...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Match
Monster Mansion Match is a fun matching game for kids. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match two of the same monster. Watch out for the Little Angry Red Monster though! He likes to...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Shape Match
Monster Mansion Shape Match is a fun educational game for kids to learn and practice 2D and 3D shapes. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match objects to shapes or objects to words....
ABCya
Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Number Match
Monster Mansion Number Match is a fun matching game for kids to practice numbers and counting. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the numbers and objects. Players can compare...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Milk It Dairy Match
Milk It - Dairy Match is a fun matching game for kids. Click on the windows of the barn to reveal the friendly cows and match two of the same kind. Watch out for the strawberry ice cream though! It will move the windows around on you. Do...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are the Parts of a Computer?
Each computer receives input from a variety of devices, processes that data with the CPU and memory, and sends results to some form of output. This diagram visualizes that flow.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Computer Components
Check your understanding of the flow inside the computer, from the input to the CPU and memory and back to the output, in this set of practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memory
This five-question quiz is based on the passage "Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memory."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Remembering Folk Tales Over Time
Read this passage and study the chart to answer a five-question quiz about how people remember a folk tale over a five-year period.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Information Processing and the Discovery of Iconic Memory
Practice questions related to iconic memory.