A mnemonic is a tool to help remember facts or a large amount of information. It can be a song, rhyme, acronym, image, or a phrase to help remember a list of facts in a certain order.

Examples of Order Mnemonics

The order of taxonomy:

Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach

(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)

Treble clef notes:

The lines on the staff: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (E, G, B, D, F)

The spaces on the staff: Furry Animals Cook Excellently (F, A, C, E)

Bass clef notes:

The lines on the staff: Good Boys Do Fine Always (G, B, D, F, A)

The spaces on the staff: All Cows Eat Grass (A, C, E, G)

Order of Planets:

My Very Excited Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies

(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto)

Or without Pluto: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles

Order of math operations:  

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

(Parentheses, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, and Subtract)

Order of color coding on electronic resistors:

Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well (in) Silver Goblets.

(Black, Blue, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Brown, Violet, Gray, White, Silver, Gold)

The order of the Great Lakes from west to east:

Super Man Helps Every One.

(Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario)

 The first eight U.S. presidents:

Will A Jolly Man Make A Jolly Visitor?

(George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren)

The Royal Houses of England and Great Britain:

No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely.

(Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, Windsor)

The seven articles of the United States Constitution:

Large Elephants Jump Slowly And Sink Rapidly

(Legislative, Executive, Judicial, Supremacy, Amendment, Statehood, Ratification)

To remember the value of pi: May I have a large container of coffee?

(The number of letters in each word equals the numerals in pi = 3.1415927)

The bones of the wrist:

Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can"t Handle

(Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate)