Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Memory Li Young Lee's Poem "Memonic" and the Brain

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for eight cross-curricular lessons that teach about memory and the brain using Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...
Online Course
Yale University

Yale University: History and Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
A seven-week video lecture exploring history and memory, focusing on how people mourn and recall tragedies. Lecture titles include: "Remembering Catastrophe," "War Memorials," "War Literature," and "Art and Catastrophe."
Activity
BBC

Bbc: Sleep: Face Memory Test

For Students 9th - 10th
This test assesses your temporal memory, or how long ago something happened. Try to determine if tiredness affects this type of memory. Following the test, find out some information about memory and sleep. This test takes about 15...
Website
Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Tools for Improving Your Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
This Mind Tools site helps you to improve your memory. The techniques it explains are particularly helpful in studying for exams or in situations where you need to remember detailed, structured information. They also make things like...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Magical Metals: How Shape Memory Alloys Work

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video, Ainissa Ramirez describes what shape memory alloys are, how they work, and how they are used. [4:46] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Memory Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to memory.
Article
Seeker

Seeker: Creating False Memories in Mice

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on a study in which scientists implanted false memories in the minds of rats. Includes a video.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Memories Good and Bad

For Teachers 8th
[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.
Website
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Memory Exhibition

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the Memory exhibition that was at the Exploratorium. Some topics examined are the anatomy of memory, Nagasaki, and Franco Magnani. The resource consists of exhibition news, online exhibits, articles, and lectures.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Memory and Single Linked Lists

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Have your students look at what memory is, in particular how a linked list can be used to represent a list of numbers. Explore linked lists in a game setting.
Website
Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: Core Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief description of Core Memory, a reliable high-speed storage device developed during the 1950s. The various memory artifacts are on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the development of the...
Website
Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: Williams Tube Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief description of Williams Tube Memory, the first randam-access memory used by many first generation computers. The various memory artifacts are on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the...
Website
Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: Delay Line Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief description of Delay Line Memory, a slower serial based design. This site provides a glimpse into the development of the information age from their large collection warehoused in the Computer History Museum located in Mountain...
Unit Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Memories Sorted on a Timeline

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a book review for Marley and Me by John Grogan in which he details events, both good and bad, in his life with his dog Marley. The activity focuses on having students remember and write down experiences in their lives (both good...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-question quiz is based on the passage "Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memory."
Handout
Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: I Cs, Microprocessors, & Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief description of ICs, Microprocessors, and Memory, describing the breakthroughs in technology design that dramatically reduced the size, power requirements, and cost of a computer. The various Integrated Circuit artifacts are on...
Lesson Plan
University of Washington

University Washington: Memory and Learning for Kids

For Students K - 1st
This University of Washington site includes interactive java-based games to test your memory. There are also lots of in-class activities for testing concentration and memory.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
With this lesson, students get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, students must listen...
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Virtues of Memory Six Decades of Holocaust Survivors' Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a virtual tour of artwork created by survivors' of the Holocaust. It is so imporant to preserve the memories of this time either through written word, music, or art. Select an artist to read a short biography and view examples of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Differential Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the chart to answer a five-question quiz related to Differential Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Miller's Law, Chunking, and the Capacity of Working Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the chart to complete the five-question quiz related to the capacity of working memory.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Role Does Memory Play in Art?

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the role of memory in art including how some artists try to stay accurate to the memory while others try to change it or even destroy it in some way.
Handout
Other

University of New Mexico: Immune Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
A good review of how the immune system remembers certain pathogens in order to fight off illness. Includes discussion on the role of the memory cells.

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