How Can I Remember Everything? – Working Memory Lesson Executive Function SEMH PSHE Brain Boss

How Can I Remember Everything? – Working Memory Lesson Executive Function SEMH PSHE Brain Boss

Help students understand why they forget things and discover practical memory strategies they can use every day with this engaging, ready-to-teach lesson on Working Memory.

Part of the popular Brain Boss Executive Function series, this lesson helps students explore how Working Memory works, why it sometimes becomes overloaded, and how simple strategies such as chunking, visualisation, repetition, checklists and mnemonic images can dramatically improve memory and learning.

Through fun memory games, real-life scenarios, team challenges and interactive discussions, students learn that remembering isn’t about being “clever”—it’s about using the right strategies.

This lesson works perfectly as a stand-alone lesson on memory skills or as Lesson 4 in the complete Brain Boss Executive Function unit.

What’s Included
Full PowerPoint lesson
Student workbook
Teacher guidance
Assessment rubric
Printable black-and-white worksheets
Ready-to-use classroom activities
Students will learn
What Working Memory is
Why people forget things
The difference between Working Memory and Long-Term Memory
How to use chunking, visualisation and memory strategies
How to build their own personalised Memory Toolkit
Practical strategies they can use immediately in school and everyday life
Activities include
Memory challenges
Working Memory detective activity
Real-life career scenarios
Chunking challenge
Mnemonic and visualisation activities
Memory Relay team game
Build Your Memory Toolkit
Self-reflection and radar chart assessment
Exit ticket

Perfect for:

PSHE
SEMH
Executive Function
Learning to Learn
Study Skills
Tutor Time
Advisory
SEND
Intervention groups
Upper KS2 and KS3

Students leave the lesson with practical strategies they can use immediately to improve memory, organisation and confidence in learning while developing one of the most important Executive Function skills for success inside and outside the classroom.