I Will Be Able Apply Techniques for Memory/Concentration

I Will Be Able Apply Techniques for Memory/Concentration

SSS Lesson Plan
Date: Lesson No: 8:7 Unit: Self-Management
Course: CLC Student Success Skills Topic: Memory/Concentration
Instructor Notes:
Learning Target:
  1. I will be able apply techniques for memory/concentration

Materials:
  1. View video clip on memory/concentration:
  2. Complex Picture
  3. Tips on Improving Your Memory slides 9-14 from SSS PowerPoint
  4. Blank computer paper/marker or pencil

Vocabulary:
  1. Concentration

Lesson Outline:
  1. Play for students to listen to while walking in. (“Good Feeling” by Flo Rida)
  2. Pass out folders, review goal setting importance and goals from last week and reflect on last sessions goals – keep folder on desk, will return to them at the end of the class (5 minutes)
  3. View video clip on memory/concentration: Discuss, how is concentration relevant to memory? (5 minutes)
  4. Memory/concentration game: (while students are working on this, teacher should circulate and write down feedback they heard during the activity – ie. One student says to the drawer, “no! that’s all wrong!” or, “yeah, that’s perfect” – (save this feedback for the next lesson) (20 minutes)
- Divide class into groups of about 4. Give each group one piece of blank paper and one pencil or marker.
- Put the complex picture on the floor (covered)
- Explain to students that one student per group will come up at a time. They will have 30 seconds to view the picture, (recover the picture after 30 seconds) and then report back to their group what they saw, they will have about a minute to share what they saw. The designated drawer (cannot be the person that just viewed the picture) will then need to redraw the picture based off of their group member’s description. Then, a different member from each group will have 30 seconds to view the same picture and report back. Repeat this until a group thinks that they have redrawn the picture correctly. If it’s not correct, let them have a few more rounds. Whichever group draws the picture closest to the original wins.
- Discuss: How did you feel when you tried to remember the picture? What strategies did you use to help your remember what was in the picture? On the board, have student brainstorm memory and concentration strategies they can use in school.
  1. Go over Tips on Improving Your Memory slides 9-14 from SSS PowerPoint (5 minutes)
  2. Return to folders. Goal set based off discussion and activities from today. Collect folders. (5 minutes)
  3. Brain Gym (time permitting)

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