Active Study Strategies

A card containing a small amount of information to help you learn terms, definitions, and concepts.

• Flashcards

• Chart

• Concept Map

• Practice Test

A graphic organizer to learn terms more in depth than a flashcard

• Timeline

• Descriptive Image

• Frayer Model

• Labeling

Demonstrates relationships between concepts, organize ideas/formulas, compares and contrasts. Usually with rows and columns.

• Flashcards

• Timeline

• Concept Map

• Chart

Helps identify parts or locations of systems, maps, or concepts

• Labeling

• Feynman Teaching

• Flashcard

• Frayer Model

Used to help you see when events are occurring in relation to one another and developing over time.

• Labeling

• Timeline

• Infograph

• Feynman Teaching

Used when creating a visual representation of a process.

• Descriptive Imaging

• Frayer Model

• Timeline

• Flashcards

Used to show visual relationships between terms/concepts/ideas

• Feynman Teaching

• Flashcard

• Timeline

• Concept Map

A collection of imagery, data visualizations like pie charts and bar graphs, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic.

• Timeline

• Labeling

• Infographic

• Chart

A four step way to teach others and also yourself material

• Descriptive Image

• Frayer Model

• Feynman Teaching

• Practice Tests

Use to help you simulate the test day experience​

• Practice Test

• Infographic

• Descriptive Imaging

• Labeling