Multiple Learning Stratigies

For this optional project i had to pick a class and try a new learning strategy.

What and Why?
I decided to try this method in Biology while learning the process of cell division, MITOSIS!
I chose to do it on Mitosis because it is a long process that has many steps, and i knew that it would take some time to memorize/understand the whole process.

What I did:
1) In our first class we learned about the first step of Mitosis, which is Interphase. i took notes throughout class and looked at the diagram in our text book.
2) During our break i took the time to highlight any important sections he mentioned and then i underline anything i was a little confused about.
3) When i got home that night, after dinner, i took out my notes and put then into my own words. Doing t his i was able to learn it better because i was teaching my self. When i teach myself i have to be in a quite place and be alone because i talk to myself and coach my self through the tutorial.
4) After i felt that i was able to go through all of interphase without the help of my notes, i then quizzed my self with some questions i have written done earlier when i underline in class. if i could answer the questions without having to refer back to my book, i knew i was on the right track!

The next Biology class i had we learned the other steps of Mitosis and i repeated the same steps as i did for Interphase.

My outcome
I believe that this helped me ALOT! because there are 8 steps involved in cell division, it takes the brain along time to soak in all of the information. And by lengthen out my studying time it helped my not only memorize the steps but learn them as well!
On my test i wrote i received an A and i was able to recall all of the information that i learned with this new strategy!

This is a very useful strategy to use when i am trying to learn a lengthy process and i found all the work that i out into this strategy paid off in the end!