It's that time of year when the exams are upon us and we are all doing lots of revision sessions for students. There comes a point when you get to your revision lesson and wonder how you can deliver the material differently to make it less repetitive for the students.
The purpose of this post is for me to record a list of revision lesson/activity ideas that I have collected and used to share with you all. Also I find it quite handy to have a toolkit of the things that I have used so I don't forget them!
1. Multiple choice quiz using either Socrative or the Promethean Race Car Game
2. Mount past paper questions on bigger paper and allow students to work in groups to annotate the questions first - what sort of response is being looked for? What are the key points on that topic? Then structure their answer
3. Higher level thinking activity where students are given an image related to the topic and there are a set of four questions round the outside to delve in to what the topic is about, such as:
- What is it?
- How does it work?
- What does it do?
- How do you use it?
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| Higher level thinking activity |
4. Pass the question - give the students an exam question to answer and a mini whiteboard to pass around. They are all only allowed to contribute one word each time they get the whiteboard. Once they have written their word the whiteboard gets passed on to the next person to add a word to gradually build up the answer.
5. Write a song - give the students a print out of the lyrics of a popular song (don't let them chose a song - it takes forever!) and they have to rewrite the lyrics with a revision topic.
6. Padlet - Padlet.com is an amazing teaching tool. It basically enables you to set up a wall/electronic pinboard where you can put different resources eg. text, images, links etc and can be contributed to collaboratively. As a revision lesson tool, particularly for key stage 5, I get students to collaboratively contribute to a padlet by giving them topics that they need to produce revision for to upload on to the padlet.
Below is one I created for my GCSE ICT students where they can access all of the revision material in one place.
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| Padlet revision |
First of all, give students a topic or section of the specification. Get them to pick out the key words and create a wordle. Then get them to prepare a 2/3 minute talk on the topic. When presenting to the class, they can only have the Wordle on display and in front of them for stimulus.
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| Wordle |
8. Stop motion animation - students create a stop motion animation using mini whiteboards or similar on a given topic.
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| Stop motion animation |
Keep an eye on this post as it is a working progress.
Thanks
