Friday, May 13, 2005

Name Those Planets

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

Did you know the order of the planets without having to read it here?

Okay, look away from the screen and name the planets again in order.
Could you do it?

Sometimes a learning aid can be indispensable. I have used a mnemonic since I was a small child; perhaps you know it too.

My very easy method, just set up nine planets!

I take the first letter of each word and it stands for the first letter of the planet. You just have to remember that Mercury comes first.

There are so many ways to help people learn, mnemonics, rhymes, stories and the like. Get creative with chunking the information that you are giving the participants and see what they can remember.

If you have any ideas on how to get people to remember information that you use in your presentation, please feel free to post them.

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