2019 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2007)
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jetsetter:
I think when the children reach secondary school where Science concepts become more complicated, they should find a way to revise which is best suited for oneself. Either write notes or draw mind maps, up to the individual.
I mean the shooting curves and squiggly lines; categories & sub-cats hovering on top of one another. It's more suitable for brainstorming, but for index cards/notes, I prefer the facts to be presented in rows and columns - for easy recollection!lee_yl:
P4 Sc where got so complicated one! :razz:
Btw, my children attended the Tony Buzan Sc holiday prog before & they like.
Right now, after we go through one topic, they draw out one mind map, helps to simplify the concepts and consolidate what they have learnt. I don't keep their mind maps, they go straight into the bins!!
More like this process helps them to recap while they draw these mind maps out. For revision, may be messy to trace out what they have drawn -
Personally I don’t find mindmaps helpful. It is just a re-hash of the broad categories of topics under one theme but it does not provide any depths or explanations. It might be good for our times when we memorise facts but in today’s world, it’s about application. I find that if I use mindmaps to teach or consolidate, my kids are not going anywhere in their learning.
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my dd treats it like a Art work , just like leeyl girls, she designed with colors and nice bubbles and boxes - more like a piece of craft . ds is lazy one, will not draw a mind map , he said all in his mind why need to spend time to craft out - like real err.. :skeptical:
to certain extent , a simple mind mind may help kids to see the concept, similarities and differences
kids sch like to use mind map for EL compo too -
mindmaps help our team brainstorm for ideas. normally secretariat will draw it on the white board so all can see the inter-relationships, then someone transposes it into a memo.
for exam cramming, I had my own mnemonic devices that were similar to mindmaps but not presented like tony buzon’s. I also used a lot of acronyms for humanities subjects last time. I recall I distilled to 1 or 2 index cards with a list of acronyms on the eve of exams. But for science subjects, acronyms won’t work too well.
mindmaps are good for compo writing.
have not tried it on science though, as the facts are fairly straight-fwd in lower block science. Just read notes/guide a few times, the facts get etched…
it’s the application/process parts that need a bit more drilling, like IMP75 shared. -
sky minecrafter:
Can share more on how your child use mind mapping for Sc?
Make mind maps.phtthp:
The best is : get your child to make their own Science notes, after reading.
If don't start to train them now to learn to be independent : next time, how are they going to study IP track, themselves ? -
Different strokes for different folks; some find it useful, some don’t. Given the number of techniques available (some well known, some not so), I’m sure anyone can pick a comfortable / suitable method:
Mind map, mental imagery, keyword mnemonic, speed reading, acrostic mnemonic, grouping, method of Loci (a.k.a. memory palace in the show Sherlock), etc. -
jetsetter:
Useful to visualise the associations/ relationships between concepts.
it's the application/process parts that need a bit more drilling, like IMP75 shared.
Aiya, Of course we all know that by using mind map alone is not enough to answer application/process skills questions but by internalising the concepts and their association, it should make it easy to answer the application/processing questions -
floppy:
Why watch Sherlock?Different strokes for different folks; some find it useful, some don't. Given the number of techniques available (some well known, some not so), I'm sure anyone can pick a comfortable / suitable method:
Mind map, mental imagery, keyword mnemonic, speed reading, acrostic mnemonic, grouping, method of Loci (a.k.a. memory palace in the show Sherlock), etc.
Watch \"Genius\" on Nat Geo to see how Einstein thinks! First n foremost, study table must be messy like mindmaps! :rotflmao:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/ -
jetsetter:
Why watch Sherlock?
Why watch Sherlock?floppy:
Different strokes for different folks; some find it useful, some don't. Given the number of techniques available (some well known, some not so), I'm sure anyone can pick a comfortable / suitable method:
Mind map, mental imagery, keyword mnemonic, speed reading, acrostic mnemonic, grouping, method of Loci (a.k.a. memory palace in the show Sherlock), etc.
Watch \"Genius\" on Nat Geo to see how Einstein thinks! First n foremost, study table must be messy like mindmaps! :rotflmao:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/
Because I got bro crush on Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman :rotflmao:
The method of loci was just something interesting that they used in the show to portray Sherlock's intelligence and superhuman memory. It would probably be a technique foreign to most, except those who used it in spelling bee or memory contest. -
floppy:
Why watch Sherlock?
Why watch Sherlock?jetsetter:
[quote=\"floppy\"]Different strokes for different folks; some find it useful, some don't. Given the number of techniques available (some well known, some not so), I'm sure anyone can pick a comfortable / suitable method:
Mind map, mental imagery, keyword mnemonic, speed reading, acrostic mnemonic, grouping, method of Loci (a.k.a. memory palace in the show Sherlock), etc.
Watch \"Genius\" on Nat Geo to see how Einstein thinks! First n foremost, study table must be messy like mindmaps! :rotflmao:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/
Because I got bro crush on Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman :rotflmao:
The method of loci was just something interesting that they used in the show to portray Sherlock's intelligence and superhuman memory. It would probably be a technique foreign to most, except those who used it in spelling bee or memory contest.[/quote]Method of loci = shichida method
u can start your ds on shichida...:)
Listing items in the correct sequence thru visualisation.
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