Study Skills Workshop Improve your memory and revision skills

Learning objective To appreciate how you can exercise your brain to make it work better when learning

Key questions What do you think of revision or the way you learn? How often do you revise? Where? When? How? What strategies do you already use when revising?

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There are lots of different ways to make your studying easier and more effective: But first you need to ask the question Be clear about what you are aiming to do in your study session. Today I am going to review Trigonometry or History etc.

Decide how you are going to study Don’t study for any more than twenty minutes at a time. Every twenty minutes take a five to ten minute break. In that five, ten minute break do something physical

Make full use of your ENVIRONMENT, put positive comments up in your room to encourage you. You need a light room Lots of air, a warm room can make you drowsy. Snacks to keep you going But make sure they are healthy, and drink lots of water Play music that clams you down – usually music that has 60 beats per minute

This is the brain stem Right Hemisphere Left Hemisphere Mid brain And in the middle the Corpus Callosum

The brain stem controls the bodies function such as breathing, and instinct.

The mid brain controls our memory and emotions. Its important to keep calm when studying because if you are irate, or un-nerved your midbrain shuts down and no learning can take place.

The Left Hemisphere is responsible for language, logic, and detail.

The Right Hemisphere is responsible for music, creativity and visual/spatial skills.

The Corpus Callosum is the key to it all. The Corpus Callosum is a bundle of fibres around 200 million which connect the left and right hemispheres. It send electrical signals to and fro, making the brain work as one. The goal of the next part is to show you how to create new links so that messages pass quicker and effectively make you smarter because your brain works quicker.

Activity 3 Mnemonics

BECAUSE BIG ELEPHANTS CAN ALWAYS UNDERSTAND SMALL ELEPHANTS

Plenary - review & reflection Tell me one thing that you have learnt that you will use again?

Extension activities 1-10 in Japanese Can you count?