Memorizing Techniques Using Music
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Musical Mnemonics Using Song and Rhyme
Rote learning of names, dates, lists, and tables is so much easier with the help of these musical mnemonics using songs and rhymes. Musical mnemonics are among the best memorizing techniques for kids and students of all ages. And YouTube has hundreds to help your kids memorize everything from math to grammar, history to science.
These YouTube videos combine the senses, rhyme, rhythm and tunes to help reinforce otherwise disjointed facts and figures. Watching, listening, singing and clapping along helps kids and teens to memorize facts by combining visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. Plus, they're just SO FUN!
This is just a sample of what's available for free. Many more are available from iTunes, mp3 websites and DVD marketers.
These YouTube videos combine the senses, rhyme, rhythm and tunes to help reinforce otherwise disjointed facts and figures. Watching, listening, singing and clapping along helps kids and teens to memorize facts by combining visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. Plus, they're just SO FUN!
This is just a sample of what's available for free. Many more are available from iTunes, mp3 websites and DVD marketers.
Tips for Creating Your Own Musical Mnemonics
D. B. Tague, who writes the blog, Music Makes Sense, has a great post with suggestions for how to use music and information chunking to help your kids memorize. Check out his post, Memory Boosters! Using Music to Memorize Lists and Facts
The ABC Song
Your first Musical Mnemonic
This is the Sesame Street Celebrity version
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Learn Grammar and History with Schoolhouse Rock
Grammar Rules with this Timeless Classic
Schoolhouse Rock!, originally shown on PBS, is now on DVD. I've used the grammar songs in my classroom for years. Forty years after they first aired, these songs and animations still captivate kids of all ages. All I have to do is say "conjunction junction" when a student is stuck on that part of speech, and he's rattling them off and humming under his breath.
Memorize the Preamble of the Constitution
with this song from Schoolhouse Rock
Another catchy tune... My daughter memorized the preamble with this song 4 years ago and can still recite it from memory. In fact, she's a bit upset with me today because I've just played it and she says the tune was stuck in her head all day long!
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Schoolhouse Rocks Grammar
use these songs and videos to memorize parts of Speech
This timeless collection of Schoolhouse Rocks Grammar videos helps kids and English language learners remember nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, interjections, and conjunctions. They've been entertaining my elementary school students for years. I still hear my teenage daughter hum the tunes when working on her grammar assignments.
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Periodic Table of Elements
as sung by Tom Lehrer
Not the best tools for memorizing them, but highly entertaining!
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Memorize Periodic Table of Elements
in order with this song set to "We Didn't Start the Fire"
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Memorize the Presidents of the USA
with this rap from Smartsongs.org
Not quite up to date. All but Barrack Obama are in this song.
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SmartSong.org raps the US government
from Shoeless Jeff and Scott Free
These songs help kids learn the basics of our governmental system. Teachers, they make great multimedia additions to your lessons as well. Get the kids' attention by starting a unit on the Constitution with the Bill of Rights rap.
| Track | Artist | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill of Rights | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Presidents | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Three Branches | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Political Parties | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Constitution | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Fifty State Capitals I | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Fifty State Capitals II | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Welcome to Washington | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Voting Rights | Smart Songs | Trip to DC | |
| Flag | Smart Songs | Trip to DC |
Learn to Count to 20 in Japanese
with this Song from Genki Japan
What's great about this video is that is combines the song with the number and kanji symbol to help reinforce learning.
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What's Your Favorite Musical Mnemonic?
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Ladyeaglefeather
Mar 21, 2012 @ 5:25 pm | delete
- This method works very well for kid with disabilities.
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Ladymermaid
Dec 17, 2011 @ 10:01 am | delete
- There certainly are a lot of different methods for helping children learn. I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season.
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haikuwedding
Oct 15, 2011 @ 3:32 pm | delete
- No wonder it won a purple star! What a variety of music you collected here to help all of us ( I start to forget things though I am not that old..)memorize important things from 50 states to Periodic Table of Elements to Japnanese numbers ! My bones are now dancing to the tune of the Skeletal System. Oustanding job!
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anilsaini
Sep 23, 2011 @ 11:49 pm | delete
- nice lens.
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Mia-Mia
Sep 8, 2011 @ 11:54 am | delete
- Hi is a great lens. I'll bet you are one heck of a teacher! I wish I had had more of these when I was a kid.
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Coe
Aug 12, 2011 @ 10:16 am | delete
- What a great way to memorize. Thanks for writing this lens!
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profilesincolor
Aug 9, 2011 @ 9:03 am | delete
- Wonderful Lens! Not sure I have a favorite. Used to make up my own for taking tests in college and was just talking about this the other day with an older friend who has memory issues. Thank you for sharing! :-)
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Photahsiamirabel Mar 6, 2011 @ 5:31 am | delete
- Super lens. Blessed today :)
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Janiece Feb 10, 2011 @ 9:01 pm | delete
- I really enjoyed this lens of songs which help us memorize facts! I'm favoriting so I can come back again and again!
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bakerwoman Feb 9, 2011 @ 1:07 pm | delete
- What an absolutely fun lens. Favorited and lenrolled to Actors Who can SIng lens. I will have to go back to this lens and listen to all the musical mnemonic.
The Turkey in the Straw tune to memorize the 50 states was a hoot. It was a tongue twister. Phew. Blessed by a SquidAngel.
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