Students in a high school in Hamilton, Canada actually have fun learning memory techniques for recalling history and geography facts. Teacher John Cope has written a long list of songs that he uses to teach these two subjects. The songs cover topics such as:
memory techniques for recalling history and geography facts can be great fun
- provinces and territories of Canada
- Canada / U.S. relations
- causes of World World l and World War ll
- The Great Depression
and more…
Memory Techniques for Recalling History and Geography Facts
If you’d like to listen to some of these fantastically creative songs, you can check them out here. There is also a link on that page to an interview with teacher John Cope and some of his students.
As I have mentioned in other blog posts on this site, I am particularly fond of learning through song. Rhythm and rhyme together create a momentum that seems to automatically carry you forward through the content of the song. How many times have you started singing a a song, thinking you didn’t remember all the words, but as you sang it, the words just seemed to magically pop into your head and out of your mouth?
I enjoyed geography in high school, but history and fun were never two words I would have put together in the same sentence. I know I would have done a lot better in it if I had had teachers who had looked for innovative ways for us to have fun with memory techniques for recalling history and geography facts.
What has been your experience with memory techniques for learning history and geography? Share them with us in the comment section.
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