Day: April 18, 2010

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Memorizing Periodic Table?

Hey, don’t hard out your self for learning the whole periodic table. Because you don’t need to. You are only expected to remember the first 30 elements on your periodic table. Your school will never ask you to remember the whole Periodic table and there is a big theory behind the Periodic table. It will be not even until Year11.

You will always get your periodic table during the test – BUT YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THE SYMBOL AND THE NAME of elements.

So, don’t learn their mass numbers of atomic numbers. It will be just a waste of time. When the time is right, you will get used to the properties of elements and understand why they have such placements.

But here is a tip for first 20 elements.

Harry He Like Beer Cold But Not Over Frothy. Nelly the Nanny Might Although Silly Punk She Climbs Around Kinky Cave.

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How to remember the scientific “terms”?

Learning science is like learning another language. If you are learning to speak another language like Chinese or Japanese – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

It is the same procedure while  you are learning science. My advise is – use the word more often. How would you use the word more often though?

Well, everybody has different ways and methods. You could build your own table of glossary per each topic in science or make a memory card (front page with the definition and back page with the term), or even write the word many times. Some psychologists say that humans learn words by saying it or by forgetting the word few times. This is why teachers make you to do different activities and ask you to get involved into the discussion in the class.

Probably, the best way to learn science language is by ENJOYING IT! :) So, don’t bore yourself. Move on to something else if you can’t really learn the word -because you can alway come back to it.