What I noticed today is how background knowledge is heavily connected to long term memory. In my other education class, Diverse Learners with Dr. Brenning, we spent last class talking about short term and long term memory. Long term memory allows us to save things we have learned for future use and while memories do not always last forever, they can be revisited and strengthened. Long term memory can be referred to as a library full of printed books. When doing the activities today with George Washington and King George III, I realized how this was true. Even though my memories from learning this information in high school was a little dusty, I was able to remember George Washington and bits and pieces about the Revolutionary War as well as King George the III and his reign during turbulent times. As said by Shoob and Stout, “learning new content is strongly tied to background knowledge about a subject.” And furthermore, background knowledge is tied to the frontloading and information stored in long term memory. Like seen in the Social Sciences Skills Progression chart, skills and learning build off of one another from frontloading, to long term memory, to retrieval as background knowledge when learning more about the topic.