Brain Based Strategies

This is one of the best strategies that can be used to gain students attention in the class. In this strategy students long term memory and recalling power is strengthened and also help in sharpening of mind. It is similar to brainstorming wherein teacher gives activity to the students and students have to come up with their own imagination. Thus the brain processes wholes and parts simultaneously and learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception.

Few of the strategies I, had used in school are as follows:

1)BOGGLE

Brain based strategy was conducted for the students of standard VI^th.

Boggle is the classic word game where you try to find words from the the words given. Boggle is a very fun game to play.

Players can write down words they find in the grid that match the following rules:

The letters can be made by using any words present in the grid.

The word doesn't have to appear in a straight line. It can be tangled around.

Each letter in the word must uniquely appear in the grid. For example, if the word is ERASE, the letter E must appear twice in the grid. The word can't just loop back and re-use the same E.

Words must be at least 3 letters long

Words cannot be a proper noun, such as a name or place.

Less than 3 letters= 0 pts (invalid boggle word)

3 letters = 1 pt

4 letters = 2 pts

5 letters = 3 pts

6 letters = 4 pts

7 letters = 5 pts

8 letters = 6 Pts, and so on….

2) WORD GAME

Brain based strategy was conducted for the students of standard VIII^th wherein students had to make many words from one word which was given to them.

3)CROSSWORD

Crossword is puzzle in which words that are the answers to clues are written into a pattern of numbered squares that go across and down.Crossword puzzles are drawn puzzles that are usually in the shape of a square or rectangle.  The puzzle is filled with black and white squares.  The goal of a crossword puzzle is to fill the white boxes with the answers to a series of questions.  Most crosswords include numbers in the white squares so the player can match each question with a specific answer location.  The shaded squares are used to separate the answers.

Brain based strategy like was conducted for the students of standard VIII^th wherein students had to form words by solving clues which was given to them.