Revision Techniques Making it active

You have 30 seconds to remember a list of words I Remember! Is this you? Or this? Do this - KM You have 30 seconds to remember a list of words

Mercedes. Blue Desert Yellow Eighteen. January Cactus Thirty Six Ford Mercedes Blue Desert Yellow Eighteen January Cactus Thirty Six Ford Twelve Red Oasis November March Toyota

You will forget You will forget You will forget

Colours Numbers Environment Months Cars Blue Twelve Red Eighteen Yellow Numbers Twelve Eighteen Thirty Six Environment Cactus Oasis Desert Months November January March Cars Toyota Ford Mercedes (Toy Former)

Develop your Memory Just reading through notes or exercise books the night before an exam won’t work. Your brain is like a muscle. Exercise it to make it stronger. Talk - Phil

Memory techniques You need to transfer information from one place to another Look at a piece of information for a short amount of time. Try to remember it Move to a different part of the room and write down what you remember Go back and ‘fetch’ some more information Keep going until you know it all! talk

Revision – Key Word Cards Place all the cards with the * facing up. Take it in turns to work out what is on the other side. Turn over to see if you are right. If Yes remove the card, if No the card stays in play

Capital Cities Do this - Phil

Organising information Revision Techniques Organising information

Information Organisers talk

Blocks of Information Red pen Black pen Look at the information about rabbits You have 45 seconds to memorise as much as you can. Write down what you can remember. Add the parts you have forgotten in a different colour. Target these areas when memorising for a second time. You have 45 seconds. Write up the information that you had forgotten the first time.

C L A P B E N T hopping board egs bdomen eel ack ack legs ase eck ail, head, enjoy Do this - Phil

Traffic light Exam Questions Mark in green everything that you got completely correct. Mark in orange where you have dropped some marks but generally did ok. Mark in red anything that you got wrong or feel concerned about. Talk from this point onwards KM

Plus a few ideas… ‘Post-it’ notes are great for keywords, ideas, quotes, formula, tricky spellings. Stick them up in places where you spend a lot of time. The information will start to soak in.

Make a recording of yourself talking about key information Make a recording of yourself talking about key information. Listen whenever you can Revise with friends/family – take turns to give key points to answer a question about a topic so everyone is on the spot Reduce information – try to keep reducing your notes into a few pages/key words. Big challenge – whole topic on a flashcard

Revision Techniques Transformations

Mind Maps

Mind Maps Use plain paper landscape style Start with a central image preferably using different colours Thick branches come from the centre with big ideas and then become thinner with supporting details. Different colours for each branch Write single words along the branches. Try to make the words fill up the branch length Draw simple pictures or symbols to help create associations Make any links you can see between the bigger branches

First World War - key words

Barbed wire Rat Machine gun Trench foot Duckboard Sandbag Shrapnel Periscope Fire step Bully beef Fleas Bayonet

As I walked down the path to my house I could hear a clattering noise as there were duckboards on top of the path. I couldn’t get in through the front door as sandbags had been piled up next to it. When I moved them I finally got into the hall and was horrified to see a rotten trench foot sticking out of one of my wellies. I went through the living room and saw, in the ash from the fire, (a) step print. In the kitchen there was some rotten bully beef on the table with fleas buzzing around it. I went up to the bathroom and could hear machine gun noise coming from next door. I used my periscope to look out of the window and saw my crazy next door neighbour shooting at a rat. I saw red, grabbed my bayonet from next to the toothbrushes and went round to sort the neighbour out. After all, I am President of the Save the Rodent society. Sadly I couldn’t get to him as he had put barbed wire all round his garden fence. So, I just grabbed lumps of shrapnel from one of my plant pots and threw them in his general direction.

Transformation Activities: Text into Pictures Listen carefully to this new version of a very old story. You have to turn the details into a series of visual images. You are allowed to use a maximum of 5 words. The rest of the information must be shown as pictures, symbols or diagrams. Numbers are free!

Key Word Sounds like Definition Link story Picture Migrate Movement My great Aunt migrated to Australia because she was sick of the English weather and loves cold lager. Movement of people from one place to another in search of a better life Migrate My great (Aunt)

Learning key words Key Word Sounds like Definition Link story Picture My aunties remember paying into the scheme so they were sure of money when off work ill. This meant they were healthy and could play football. Workers, bosses and Government pay in to a fund to support the sick and ill when they are off work Health Insurance Healthy, sure aunts