Mnemonics

Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. A mnemonic makes remembering new material easier. We use mnemonics in many of our songs, including Order of Operations and The Metric System. For this week’s contest, we challenged you to create your own mnemonic that helps you remember something you’re learning.

Our winner this week is Bunker Hill Middle School in Sewell, NJ. Mrs. Jeffries’ 8th graders sent in an incredible variety of entries, with mnemonics for everything from Social Studies to ELA to foreign languages, and more! Here’s just a small sampling of their submissions:

To help you remember how to write an open ended essay use RACE:
Rewrite the question in your answer
Answer all parts
Cite information from the text
Extend your essay by adding insight

Here’s a mnemonic to remember what fallible means:
In the beginning of fallible it has the word ‘fall’, so to remember the meaning remember ‘able to fall’, and so it means able to make mistakes.

How to remember the order of mitosis:
Pandas Met Animals Today
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase

Here’s how to remember the order from shorter wave lengths to longer ones:
Radios From Iceland Say Upcoming X-rays Greatly Reward
Radio, FM, Infrared, Sonar, Ultraviolet, X-rays, Gamma Rays

Thank you to everyone who entered this week! Don’t forget to enter this Friday’s Week In Rap Shout-Out Contest for a chance to win a shout out next Friday.