Last year, I had my year 13 class create a revision wiki in the run up to their exams. It worked quite well, but it needed a bit of pump priming with some ICT room time that I just don’t have this year, and I wasn’t completely convinced that my current yr 13s would take […]
Revision rebooted
When I started teaching, some of the lessons I put the most time into were revision lessons. Cards, podcasts, notes, I wrote them all. While I’m aware that there a few places (particularly in the sixth form) that perhaps I still need to provide better quality revision notes, these days revision lessons are both far […]
50 question challenge
I’ve been playing around with some of the opportunities for collaborate learning through Google Docs. I created this revision lesson for Yr 12 to fulfil several criteria. Firstly I wanted a student led overview lesson. Secondly I wanted that lesson to give me some feedback on areas of misunderstanding. Thirdly I wanted to be able to […]
…now attack it with scissors!
OK, so unlike the last one I didn’t *actually* say that, but I’m a sucker for a catchy title. Last time dear reader, you joined me as my year 12 students were hurling balls of paper across the room at each other all in the name of revision. I thought I’d finish the story of […]
…and now throw it across the classroom!
Quick twist on a old revision idea to share today. Yr 12 are prepping for their AS history exams in a couple of weeks and the key is both in selecting what areas to include in a question, and for potential A/B students getting the order and the links between the sections right. So student […]
Content Generator Revision Games for WJEC History GCSE
One of the best investments we made as a school was to invest in a license for the Content Generator packages which allow teachers to quickly and easily create their own Flash based games. For our revision CD-ROM I’ve created a whole series of games for the units that we teach at GCSE. These are […]
Is it ‘Old Skool’ if it’s by email?
A couple of people on the school history forum have mentioned in the past about setting up online revision sessions via MSN for year 11 pupils during study leave. My problem is slightly different – 50 AS Level students with an exam on the 9th January and plenty of revision to do over Christmas and […]