Was browsing through the photos on my phone when I saw this. My student had written the following note to me, trying to make me happy by demonstrating what I had taught her class.
In primary school, students learn about five systems in the human body. Remembering all five can be a Herculean task for students who have poor working memory, so I came up with an acronym that combines all five systems.
McDonald’s Really Shiok
M: Muscular
C: Circulatory
D: Digestive
R: Respiratory
S: Skeletal
Shiok is Singlish for delicious. Yes, sometimes employing a vernacular term works for young, impressionable minds because they have used it from a young age. I have other acronyms too. They are bolded. Through them, you can get a rough sensing of the things we focus on in our primary school Science curriculum.
- Characteristics of Living Things (Mr Grad: Move, Reproduce, Grow, Respond, Air, food and water, Die)
- Animals: MR FIBA (Mammal, Reptile, Fish, Insect,Bird, Amphibian)
- Properties of Materials: Sweet Water= FAT (strength, waterproof, flexibility, ability to float or sink and transparency)
- Germination: WOW (water, oxygen, warmth)
- Overcrowding of Plants: SMS ‘W’ (sunlight, minerals, space and water)
- Photosynthesis: Chinese Women Like Sweet Oranges (Carbon Dioxide, Water, Light, Suga, Oxygen)
- Water Cycle: WCLCW (Water vapour contacts / cooler surface / Loses heat and / Condenses into / Water droplets.
- Rate of Evaporation: The Expensive Silly White Horse ( Temperature, Exposed Surface area, Wind, Humidity)
- Forces: GFEM (Good Friends Eat McDonald’s): Gravitational, frictional, elastic spring and magnetic
- Pressure=force/area Pay for A
- Gravitational potential energy= mgh mama go home
- Kinetic energy=1/2 mv^2 half my veins squared
Hope you find this post amusing and informative. LOL
