1. Why? Learn: Progress will be demonstrated by showing
Today you will
Learn:
The Importance of knowing your learning style and how to use mind maps as a revision aid
Why?
To be able to feel confident and organised so you can prepare yourself well for any tests and examinations
Progress will be demonstrated by showing
I can remember most of the key facts on my mind map and understand how to use the mind map technique for a variety of things inc taking notes in class.
I can create a mind map showing lots of key facts on one sheet.
I can understand what type of learner I am and how best I can revise.

2. What type of learner are you?
Starter
In pairs, discuss what type of learner you are and how you learn best?
What type of learner are you?
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic

3. How are you going to revise?
1) How do you learn?
Different learning styles e.g.
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic

4. Visual Learners Prefer to see how to do things
29% of us prefer to learn by storing images in our brains.
Possible revision techniques:
use pictures, mind maps, computers, diagrams, flowcharts, key words, posters, timelines
Videos
Mind maps.
use colour and highlighters to help the brain remember.
write information in bullet points or as key words on “post-its” – (they come in different colours).
Careful layout of notes

5. Auditory Learners Learn by listening and speaking
34% of us prefer to learn by storing sounds in our brains.
Possible revision techniques
Talk over the work with someone else
Tape notes and play them back
Listen to music while revising – no words
Repeat their work out loud in funny voices.
Make up rhymes or raps about work.
Get someone to ask you questions about the work.

6. Kinaesthetic Learners
Learn by doing
37% of us prefer to learn by movement or touch.
Possible revision techniques
Key word cards
put their notes on cards or “post-its” and sequence them (perhaps rank the cards in order of importance or make into sentences).
walk between notes or “post-its” that are on the floor or on the walls.
walk around while reading.
stand up – stretch or exercise – at least every 20 minutes.
draw pictures, mind maps – run a finger between the words on the map, say each one out loud.
squeeze a sponge or stress release ball while working.

7. How are you going to revise?
2) Suggested strategies
Mindmaps: We are looking at this one in today’s lesson
Mnemonics
Journey technique
Rhymes/ songs
Flow diagrams
Cue cards
Sound recordings
Repetition

8. Mindmaps Information can be seen quickly and act as a visual aid
Guidance in pupil organiser – title in centre, branches for separate points
Put around the house for regular revision

9. Creating a Mind Map

10. When use a mind map?
When making notes from information is being given to you by the teacher
When revising a topic from a text book
When pulling out themes from a novel
When preparing and structuring an essay
When preparing a presentation you have to give

11. Guidelines Always start with an image in the centre
The main branches/themes coming from the centre need to be thicker than all other branches – the main branches should be all different colours (so it keeps you interested)
Only use one key word per line
Use symbolic images as often as possible – very effective in making you remember something
Use the same colour for minor branches as the main branch/theme e.g. If your main branch is blue then extra branches are then added onto that main branch, then they must also be blue
Be as creative as you want – make crazy associations – just as long as it’s memorable

12. Example Mind Map

13. Example Mind Map

14. Example Mind Map

15. Example Mind Map

16. Example Mind Map

17. What Was Collectivisation?
Sell grain abroad= buy industrial machinery
1941=98% farmland collectivised
Feed industrial workers
Kulaks protested- forced to hand over food
Increase grain production
NEP had not worked
Grain exports increased
Reasons
Results
Modernise farming methods
What Was Collectivisation?
=famine million died!
Eliminate kulaks= ‘Real’ communism
25,000 workers sent to the countryside
Key Features
Join kulaks and batraks together
How?
Who?
What?
Use farming machinery
Modern facilities- hospitals
When?
Where?
1927
Kolkhoz= farms grouped together
Russian farmland

18. Let’s have a go at a Mindmap

19. Plenary Swap maps with a partner
Test each other on what they can remember