top ideas for creating effective revision resources
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Top Ideas for Creating Effective Revision Resources
Mrs Emily GossCurriculum Leader for Geography
Wyvern College
@wyverngeography@MrsGoss1 wyverngeography
What do I need to know to help my child succeed?
What content do
they need to know?
When are the exams?
What are the key subject
specific terms?
What command words will be used?
Is there any specific exam
technique that will help?
• Audit
• Revise
• Test it
What is effective revision?1. Audit what you know
2. Actively revise what you don’t
3. Test yourself
Subject Specific information
• Key Theory
• Exam Questions
• Exam technique
Revision Guides
Key Words
1. Terminology Dominoes
Key Words
2. Flappy glossaries
• A really good way to selftest key vocabulary usingjust 1 piece of A4
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3. Heads and tails cards
• Matching key words and definitions
Key Words
4. Dingbats
• Pictures that summarise a key word
Key Words
5. Taboo
• Create taboo cards with key words, listing words you cant say to describe the key word and play it!
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6. Four in a row
• Create a four in a row grid and play it!
What about more detailed content?
Revising Key content
7. Revision Jenga
1. Number the blocks
2. Have a list of numbered questions/key words
3. Students answer the question and remove the block if they get it right
8. Create a test
Revising Key Content
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9. Flash Cards
• Summarising key information onto small pieces of card
• Writing key words on one side and definitions on the other
• Use what you make to play a game of snap!
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10. Shrink it!
• Reducing flashcards down further to a post-it or even a picture
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11. Revision bunting
• Triangular flashcards, strung up!
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12. Twitter Summaries
• Get Social media savvy!
• Summarise a topic into a 140 character tweet
13. Etch-a-sketch
• Sketch a picture to explain a topic
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14. Get musical
• Summarise a topic into a rap, song, poem!
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15. Chalk Challenge
• Draw a summary outsidein chalk
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16. Mind maps
• Summarise a topic into key pictures and words. Make links
between key ideas
Revising Key content
17. Red or Black Mind Maps• Students mind map everything they know about a specific
subject in black for 5 minutes.
• Use notes to add any forgotten factsin red.
• Red signifies danger and we thereforeremember it!
Revising Key content
18. Change perspective
• Look at key theory from a different point of view
Revising Key content
19. Write Instructions
• Write a set of instructions for a key process or theory
Revising Key content
20. Snakes and Ladders
• Make a snakes and ladders game
Revising Key content
21. Look, Cover, Write, Check!
Revising Key content
22. Knowledge Organisers
• Create a Knowledge Organiser for a topic
Revising Key content
23. Cheat Sheets
• When you’ve created a Knowledge organiser use it to answer a past exam question!
Revising Key content
24. Pictionary
• Sketch or illustrate a diagram ofa landscape, graph or idea!
Revising Key content
25. Rapidough
• Make a model out ofplaydough/plasticineand explain it
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26. Revision Clocks
• Spend an hour makinga revision clock
• 5 minutes on each part of a topic.
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27. Revision pong
• Write questions (or use ones in revision guides) and throw a ball to answer them
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28. Charades
• Act out a theme, play, key topic!
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29. Just a minute
• Talk solidly for a minute about a topic/teach someone else about it
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30. Voice Memos
• Make voice memos (most software is free to download)
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31. Art Attack
• Create a summary cartoon from text
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32. Mnemonics
• Use the first letters to abbreviate words
Hydraulic Action
Abrasion
Corrasion
Corrosion
Hungry AntsAlwaysCraveChocolate
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33. Venn Diagrams
• Summarise notes to compare similarities and differences
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34. Highlight with purpose
Colour Coding Green-Geography wordsPink-ConnectivesYellow-Case study specific
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35. Answer past paper questions
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36. Exam paper chains
• Write an exam question ona strip of paper, then write each sentence of your answeron a separate strip!
• The longer the chain thebetter the answer!
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37. Model Answers
• Create a model answer using a mark scheme
• Write your own mark scheme
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38. Nightmare Papers
• Create a nightmare paper
• Think about the worst questions you can imagine and plan to answer them
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39. Lego explanations
• Use lego to explain a topic
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40. Dinner explanations
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42. Talk like a textbook
• Encourage them to talk like a textbook!
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43. Gimmie 5
• 5 top things about a topic
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44. Google Answers
• Pose a question and provide your own google answer
Other ideas you could try at home...
45. Revision Twister
46. Warble write. Write for 5 minutes about a topic in full sentences.
47. Subject specific skills practice e.g. OS Map skills
48. Discussing recent news articles/events with them
49. Watching subject specific documentaries e.gBlue Planet II
50. Reading around the topic e.g. Bill Bryson
They shouldn’t be bored revising but they should be busy!