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Memory is a skill we all use everyday and the stronger the better. There's nothing worse than drawing a blank on a name when you see a face you recognize, except possibly forgetting a speech you've prepared for a big presentation for your boss. Don't let that happen, start improving your memory today with fun memory games for kids.

Great for building memory skills! Train your brain!

"Welcome to Backyard Brains The brain is complex, but extremely fascinating. We need more people interested in studying the brain because 20% of the world will have a neurological disorder... and there are no cures! To study the brain, you typically have to be a graduate student at a major university. Not any more! Backyard Brains enables everyone to be a neuroscientist! We provide affordable neuroscience experiment kits for students of all ages to learn (hands-on) about electrophysiology. Now everyone from schoolchildren to grad students and every grade in between can experiment with similar tools used by real neuroscientists worldwide! By following a few simple steps, everyone can experience first-hand how the brain communicates with our senses, memories, hopes, and desires."

Free resource for creating and sharing books. Bookemon offers educators and K12 schools a secure, private and friendly environment for their students and staff to create and share books online. Bookemon lets everyone make their own books to preserve their memories in photos, drawings, family recipes and stories to share with their family and future generations.

This PDF created by Fairfax County Public School's Assistive Technology Services team provides a wealth of resources and links for executive functioning. Categories include Self-Control, Metacognition, Flexibility, Goal-Directed Persistence, Attention and Focus, and Working Memory.

"Notebooking Central booklets complement Dinah Zike's Notebook Foldables for Spirals, Binders, and Composition Books book and companion CD, an essential guide for notebooking. Each Notebooking Central booklet contains content-specific Notebook Foldables with graphics to aid comprehension and memory, front tabs that elicit student responses on the back of tabs, underneath tabs, and on the notebook page surrounding tabs, and ideas for the use of Notebook Foldables within different content areas."

"Assistive Technology to Support Executive Function "

Google Site compilation of Executive Functioning sites and Apps from Cheryl Temple at RATE14

Provides a wealth of resources for self-management, time-management, material management, and more.

Enjoy a new story each week. Action-packed adventures make listening fun and help youngsters learn to concentrate, improve memory and laying the foundations for lifelong literacy skills.

In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. As part of the online tool, students brain

There are three basic types of mnemonic strategies: Keyword - A keyword is a familiar word that sounds similar to the word or idea being taught. Keywords are generally used with an illustration of some type. Pegword - Pegwords refer to a set of rhyming

See and Learn makes it easy to support children with Down syndrome at home, in individual and group therapy settings and in the classroom. See and Learn offers activities designed to promote the development of language, reading, speech, memory and number