Year 7 were asking me for ideas for successful revision today. Here are the suggestions I usually give GCSE and A level classes, but it works for all of you!
Some revision ideas:
- make flash cards of dates, key people, words etc ( make your own)
- make colourful mind maps (make your own here or here)
- storyboard an event, e.g. Jenner's discovery of vaccination
- make a concept map for an event showing who, what, when, where and why
- write an A-Z of the topic
- write a story from the point of view of an inanimate object, e.g. the political deal from the point of view of Hindenburg's pen
- record your notes and put them on your iPod/phone (I usually use this one)
- create songs/mnemonics to remember key facts (get some inspiration here)
- teach a bit of the topic to someone who knows nothing about it, get them to take notes so you can see what you forgot to include
- write a quiz/make a game to play (make your own)
- get the big marker pens out and make posters to stick around your room
- prepare a presentation on your topic
- type up a summary of your notes
- write the story out, cut it up and put it back together
- skim read the source and summarise it in a few sentences, summarise that until you get one word
- make colourful mind maps (make your own here or here)
- storyboard an event, e.g. Jenner's discovery of vaccination
- make a concept map for an event showing who, what, when, where and why
- write an A-Z of the topic
- write a story from the point of view of an inanimate object, e.g. the political deal from the point of view of Hindenburg's pen
- record your notes and put them on your iPod/phone (I usually use this one)
- create songs/mnemonics to remember key facts (get some inspiration here)
- teach a bit of the topic to someone who knows nothing about it, get them to take notes so you can see what you forgot to include
- write a quiz/make a game to play (make your own)
- get the big marker pens out and make posters to stick around your room
- prepare a presentation on your topic
- type up a summary of your notes
- write the story out, cut it up and put it back together
- skim read the source and summarise it in a few sentences, summarise that until you get one word
- make a timeline (here)
- in your mind, walk yourself through an imaginary version of the event as if you were there
- write key words from the story on post-its, stick them to things in the room, walk around the room telling yourself the story until you can imagine the walk and tell the story in your head
- make an activity/write a story for teaching the topic to the lower school
- write key words from the story on post-its, stick them to things in the room, walk around the room telling yourself the story until you can imagine the walk and tell the story in your head
- make an activity/write a story for teaching the topic to the lower school
