ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Discovering Memory Li Young Lee's Poem "Memonic" and the Brain
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...
Yale University
Yale University: History and Memory
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."
BBC
Bbc: Sleep: Face Memory Test
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...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Tools for Improving Your Memory
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Magical Metals: How Shape Memory Alloys Work
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.
Seeker
Seeker: Creating False Memories in Mice
Article reports on a study in which scientists implanted false memories in the minds of rats. Includes a video.
Read Works
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.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Memory Exhibition
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.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Memory and Single Linked Lists
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.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Core Memory
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...
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Williams Tube Memory
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...
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Delay Line Memory
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memories Sorted on a Timeline
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...
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."
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: I Cs, Microprocessors, & Memory
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...
University of Washington
University Washington: Memory and Learning for Kids
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan
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...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words
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.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Virtues of Memory Six Decades of Holocaust Survivors' Creativity
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Differential Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease
Read this passage and study the chart to answer a five-question quiz related to Differential Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Miller's Law, Chunking, and the Capacity of Working Memory
Read this passage and study the chart to complete the five-question quiz related to the capacity of working memory.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Role Does Memory Play in Art?
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.
Other
University of New Mexico: Immune Memory
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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