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Color Code Notes to Keep Ideas Organized

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Organization Working Memory Attention Verbal Memory

Color Code Notes to Keep Ideas Organized

If your student struggles to remember their notes and they have stronger visual memory

How To Apply It!

  1. Consider using different-colored flashcards, highlighters, and sticky notes when planning a project or studying from your notes to help you organize information.
  2. Combine related facts for writing a report or memorizing. For example all of the purple cards might be about the hero's early years, while all of the green cards would be about his major accomplishments.
  3. You can highlight your notes in different colors the first time through based on your chosen organization scheme. For example, everything in blue could be easy while everything in pink is hard. Or everything in green is a detail to memorize while everything in orange is a concept to understand. You can then tackle your notes by color.
  4. Color coordinate your textbook and your notes so you can seamlessly go back and forth between the two when studying clusters of information.
  5. Start with a color key to be sure you have a good organizational scheme and then you can refer back to it if you forget what each color represented, especially if you won't finish in a single day.

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

When we combine related information we develop connections and are more likely to understand and remember the information. When students are younger, teachers often draw these connections for them. As they get older, they will need to make many of these associations on their own. Color coding can help them deliberately draw those connections and then remember them through the visual association.