Category: Education

Did You Know – Miscellaneous

  • Did you know 11% of people are left handed
  • Did you know August has the highest percentage of births
  • Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it
  • Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  • Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
  • Did you know an ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain
  • Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales
  • Did you know no two corn flakes look the same
  • Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
  • Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
  • Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
  • Did you know no words in the English language rhyme with the words angel, angst, breadth, bulb, depth, eighth,  month, ninth, orange, purple, scalp or twelfth

    • several hundred more ‘did you know’s here

    Egg Shell Geodes

    You’ll Need:

    Egg shells (washed)
    plaster of paris
    disposable cup
    craft sticks or stir sticks
    Water
    table salt or other crystal growing material – magnesium sulfate, borax etc.
    bowl or pan
    optional: food coloring for colored crystals

    complete instructions here

    Graduation Yarn Bug

    You’ll need:

    • Yarn: in school’s colors
    • black and white stiffened felt paper, card stock, or foamies
    • googly eyes
    • cream paper for the diploma parchment
    • 1 section of an egg carton
    • craft glue

    complete instructions and patterns here

    Remember a Name

    1. Commit

    Begin by making a commitment — a conscious decision — to remember people’s names.


    2. Concentrate

    You can only remember what you observe in the first place. If you are distracted or if you aren’t paying attention, you won’t register the person’s name so you can’t possibly remember it. Concentrate, then, on 1) paying attention to the person’s name when you first hear it, and 2) forming an impression of the person.

    3. Repeat

    Repetition helps engrave the name in your memory.

    • Use the name immediately.
    • Repeat it silently to yourself.
    • Comment on the name, if possible.
    • Use it occasionally in the conversation without overdoing it.
    • Use it when leaving.
    • Write it down afterwards.

    4. Associate

    Try to make an association between the person’s face and an image the name suggests. If you exaggerate the image — make it larger, say — and give it movement — have it slam into some feature of the person’s face, for example — you will make the image even more memorable.

    more ideas and info here

    Do it and how: STUDY / HOMEWORK

    Find a method that works for you. Here’s what we’ve found that works well for a lot of people:

    • A non-busy room
    • Good lighting
    • Low music, your choice
    • Snacks, like pretzels
    • Study materials; text book, paper, pen or pencil, & highlighter

    Let’s say you need to study a chapter for history class.

    Before you read the chapter, go thru and write out the vocabulary words (the ones in bold) on a piece of paper.

    Go to the glossary and add the definitions. (I like to highlight the vocab words.)

    If you will be answering questions from the chapter, pre-read the questions.

    Then go ahead and read the chapter.

    When you notice where a possible answer to a question might be, mark down the page number with the topic on the back of your vocab sheet.  You can refer to this later.

    While the information is still fresh in your mind, answer the questions. *hint* Generally, the questions are in same order that the chapter was presented in. So if you are searching for an answer to #3. Check out where you found #2 and #4 and look between.

    Then take a much needed break. Yay!

    When test day nears, pull out the vocab sheet and have a friend or family member quiz you on the definitions. First by giving you the definition and you provide the vocab word, then the other way around.

    If there are history dates or important people involved, quiz on those too.