1. Revision Techniques
Making it active

2. 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

3. 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

4. You will forget You will forget You will forget

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Capital Cities
Do this - Phil

10. Organising information
Revision Techniques
Organising information

11. Information Organisers
talk

12. 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.

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

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. Revision Techniques
Transformations

18. Mind Maps

19. 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

20. First World War - key words

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

22. 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.

23. 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!

24. 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)

25. 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