A theory that I will use throughout this lesson will be the information processing theory is many theories other theories make up. Those theories are sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory. In this lesson sensory memory is being used because of the pictures of the spiders shown in the book which will grab the students’ attention. Memory is the ability to recall information from one’s brain. The storage for memory is relatively small which only allows useful information to be stored. Working memory will be put to use when students use the sticky notes to write down what they have to recall what they have learned from the book. Long-term memory is not a given for this activity but if the students use find the information in the text useful and necessary they will retain it for a long period of time but there is a possibility that the information stuck with the students because they are having Spider Fest the next day. Things that would help the information stay in the students mind a little longer are all the pictures throughout the book and keywords that helped them remember certain facts. For this lesson I had the students recall two facts from the book which required them to think back about the information that was read to them from the book.
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