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Includes more than 1,500 useful study tips submitted by students, teachers, and parents from all over the world. The tips range from elementary school through college, and even graduate school. You will see an archive of tips going all the way back to 2007.
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Study Tips
Here are two study tips from over 1,500 tips submitted by students and teachers
I look for tv documentaries about topics we are studying in history. The documentaries make the topic come alive for me. I get better understanding and remember more about the topic.
Alex Padilla, Student, college freshman Pennsylvania
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Try to allocate time of study and time of rest on a timetable so that you are not constantly working. Your mind needs time to absorb the information you have been studying.
Thomas Fifield, Student, Year 13 United Kingdom
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Budgeting Activity
In these troubled economic times, a good social studies activity is to have your students develop plans for how they can help their families cut expenses. Have them consider costs such as transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, and other areas of expense. Students will learn about budgeting (tie in to math) and responsibility. Have the students share their plans with the class.
Good Writing Position
Whether your students are writing in print or cursive (a disappearing form), they can improve the legibility of their writing by maintaining a good writing position. Writing in a good position promotes proper size, formation, and spacing of letters