Study Skills for Successful Learning

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Did your dog eat your homework?? You're not alone! It's a fact that many students never learn basic study habits, such as time management, how to take notes, how to prepare for tests, or even how to read effectively, They're smart enough to succeed in their classes. It's just that they don't know how.

ESRB Rating:   Everyone (Content suitable for persons age 6 or older.)

Description

Ages 10 & UP

Study Skills for Successful Learning teaches you the basics with unique step-by-step animations.

The lessons synchronize text with audio to accommodate different students' learning styles. The CD-ROM also includes hilarious animations, diagnostic quizzes, colorful graphics, printable scheduling and note-taking forms, exciting games, and your own personal reminder feature. Before you know it, you'll have mastered the skills you need to succeed!

Learning Styles:

• Are you Left- or Right Brained?
• What it means if your Left or Right Brained
• Are you a Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic Learner?
• Much, much, more...

Time Management and Organization:

• How well do you study?
• Eliminating Excuses
• Tools for Study
• Organizing your Assignments
• To-Do List
• Causes of Poor Concentration
• Study Prescription Worksheet
• Much, much, more...

Note-Taking:

• Note-Taking Skills
• Terms for Note Taking
• Why We Don't Listen
• Taking Notes from Lectures
• Textbook Note-Taking
• Problems in Taking Notes
• Listening Skills
• Teacher Inventory
• Note Cards
• Biography
• Tree Outline
• Much, much, more...

Reading:

• Reading
• Why Are You Reading?
• Five Different Rates
• Surveying the Textbook
• What is Power Reading?
• Reading Graphics
• Much, much, more...

Remembering:

• Your Memory
• Types of Memory
• The Steps to Remembering
• Memory Traps
• How to Study a Foreign Language
• Using Your Sense to Learn a Language
• Much, much, more...

Test Taking:

• Becoming "Testwise"
• Reasons for Doing Poorly
• Test Anxiety
• Symptoms of Test Anxiety
• Test-Taking Tools
• When Should You Guess on a Test?
• Multiple-Choice Tests
• True & False Tests
• Matching Tests
• Fill-In the Blank Tests
• Essay Tests
• Take-Home Tests
• Much, much, more...

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:

• Improve Your Thinking Skills
• Having Problems with Your Teacher
• Teacher Conferences
• Be Your Own Teacher
• Context Clues
• Example of Context Clues
• Word Parts
• Much, much, more...

Features:

• Over 120 animated lessons with audio narration
• Over 20 printable study skills tools
• Friendly self-assessment quizzes
• Fun learning and review games
• Personal Reminder function
• Online homework help

Windows® 95/98
Pentium 75 or faster
16MB RAM
SVGA (640X480)
Double speed CD-ROM drive
Sound card
Keyboard, mouse

Macintosh
Power PC System 7.5.3 or higher
12MB RAM
SVGA (640X480)
Millions of colors
4x CD-Rom drive Keyboard, mouse