Continuing this week's focus on that old quiz show classic 'Pelmanism' aka 'Concentration' or Matching Pairs, here's a video demonstrating some of the ways the Matching Pairs activity can be used in the classroom.
This card game seems to have only a tenuous link to 'Pelmanism - the memory system', devised by William Joseph Ennever in the 1890s, at least partly based on the work of Christopher Louis Pelman. Pelmanism was a memory training system which, according to the advertising of the time, could banish 'forgetfulness', 'depression', 'weakness of will', 'moodiness', 'unnecessary fears and phobias' and 'mental stagnation', whilst developing positive qualities such as 'optimism', 'decisiveness', 'cheerfulness', 'moral courage', 'social charm and tact' and 'personal magnetism'.
We can't make any such promises concerning Bim! Bam! Boogaloo! and the Matching Pairs activity, but we can promise that it's fun and, as you'll see in the video, can be used in a variety of ways to develop children's memory skills and cognitive skills.
Click here to try the Matching Pairs activity.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
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