These days, kids are taught to make up mnemonics (sentences based on the initial letters of items to remember) at school. While this method helps them remember the order, the actual names of the items often end up as a fuzzy memory.
Take this as an example: the mnemonic My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Noodles could help you recall the order of planets in the solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). But if you did not familiarise yourself with the planets first, you would be having a hard time trying to figure out the names that correspond to those initial letters.
So, it may be worthwhile to start off by learning by heart the names of the items before attempting to get the order right.