1. Revision Techniques November 2013
S4 Social Education
Revision Techniques
November 2013

2. Brain Warm Up Consider these questions
What would happen if all water was poisoned?
Invent a name for a shampoo that instantly gives you curly hair
What does a oxyputer do?
What would be the positives and negarives of all cars being blue?

3. Memory Challenge Student Run Sea Folder Chocolate Marx Pink Peanut
Nurse
Table Tennis
Red
Lost
Teacher
Kenya
Sandwich
Desk
Fast
Cheese
Sea
Marx
Reindeer
Merry
Cup
Cog
Bedroom
Tree
Drizzle
Circus
Blue
Portugal
Sick
Folder
Pink
Hobby
Essay
Umbrella
Ghandi
Bonjour
Arm
Kneel
Hat
Butter
Piano
Bread

4. Memory Challenge Consider the list again but put into categories
Imagine a story that links the words together – create an image chain.

5. Summarise information
Napoleon was the mighty Emperor of France, and many other countries in Europe after he invaded them. He was born on 15/8/1769 in the town of Ajaccio in Corsica and was the emperor of France from 1804 – His amazing Empire collapsed after he over-stretched his forces to invade Russia. He was forced to abdicate and was exiled to the island of Elba. He escaped and came back to power before a final defeat came at the hands of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo (which is in Belgium) in June Napoleon died on 5/5/1821 on the British island of St Helena.

6. Summarise information
Mind Map
Use of Bullet Points
Spider Diagram
Map of Europe

7. Using Mnemonics Simple Example Colours of the rainbow in order Richard
York
Gave
Battle In
Vain

8. Mnemonics
Create a mnemonic for the planets in the Solar System in order from the sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

9. Mnemonics Possible answers:
My very earthy mother just served us nine pizzas
(not including Pluto)
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing
Major Volcanoes Erupt, Making Jolts, Shaking,
Unsteadying Nerves
Mary's Violet Eyes Make Jack Stare Until Noticed

10. Flash Cards

11. Use a Flow Chart
Food
Digestion
Nutrition
Energy

12. Flow Chart 2 Macbeth Macbeth ambitions for crown
Macbeth brave hero in suppresing Cawdor’s rebellion
Witches prophesy the future of Macbeth and Banquo
Duncan makes Macbeth new Thane of Cawdor
Macbeth ambitions for crown
Duncan makes his son Malcolm Prince of Cumberland
Lady Macbeth schemer and ambitious. Wants Macbeth to be King
Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle
Lady Macbeth puts pressure on Macbeth
Macbeth has vision of dagger
Malcolm and Donalbain flee for safety
Macbeth kills Duncan
Banquo suspects Macbeth
Macbeth fears Banquo
Macbeth to become King

13. Brainstorm Renewable ? Clean ? Available ? Industries that use them.
Waste products?
Energy Source
Environmentally friendly ?
Non-Renewable?

14. The Advantages of Learning Maps Mind Maps Make ideas visual
Can connect ideas
The Advantages of
Learning Maps
All on one page
Can replace notes
Brainstorm

15. CHARACTERS CONNECTED BY THE THEME OF LOVE IN JANE EYRE
Interlocking circles
CHARACTERS CONNECTED BY THE THEME OF LOVE IN JANE EYRE
Jane
Eyre
Mr Rochester
St John
Rivers
Bertha
Theme of
LOVE
Rosamund

16. Draw a Storyboard
Try sequencing your ideas through drawings on a storyboard. Each sketch shows a key idea or significant moment. You don’t have to be an artist. Quick sketches and stick figures are ideal.
Hamlet
Act 1 Scene 5
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
Act 3 Scene 1
To be or not to be ?
Ghost
Hamlet
Hamlet

17. Doodles Verbs Nouns Identify the key points that you wish to learn
Create a drawing to help you fix these key points in your mind
Nouns are the names of things
Verbs describe movements
twitch
Ear
See
Verbs
Scowl
Nouns
Eye
Smell
Nose
Feel
Whisker
Eat
Mouth

18. Spider diagrams LIGHT RAYS REFLECTED RAY REFRACTIVE INDEX DIVERGING
CONVERGING
REFRACTION
MAGNIFICATION
REFLECTED RAY
INCIDENT RAY

19. Colour It Write key points on coloured card or bits of coloured paper
Genetics and Inheritance
Forces
Patterns of Chemical Change
Environment
Waves and Radiation
Arrange the items on the floor or on a table in a way that makes sense to you. Turn the pieces of paper over to use as flash cards to test yourself

20. Mnemonic
Create a tongue twister to sum up the key ideas from a topic - For example:
Macbeth murdered many men madly
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain OR
Create a poem using words or phrases which need to be remembered.

21. Causes of Industrial Decline in South Wales
Charting progress
Causes of Industrial Decline in South Wales
EXHAUSTION OF RAW MATERIALS
LOSS OF DEMAND FOR PRODUCT
OVERSEAS COMPETITION
DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES ELSEWHERE
LACK OF INVESTMENT

22. Clock Sequence
A way of connecting key points tp an idea or mental picture that is already familiar to you. For example a clock face can help you sequence key ideas. You don’t have to have twelve items. It’s the thought that counts. You can remember different parts of the topic as hours on the clock.
12 o’clock - SHUTTLE - first re-usable space vehicle
1 o’clock V2 rocket -WW2 at Peenemunde
11 o’clock SKYLAB - USA spacestation
2 o’clock - SPUTNIK - 4/10/57
9 o’clock - APOLLO 11 first man on the moon - Neil Armstrong - 20/7/69
4 o’clock - GAGARIN - first man into orbit - 12/4/61

23. Annotation Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
(14) As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my hapless sight
(7) …; deaf even to the hoots of tired outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind
(16) He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning
(19) And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, his hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
(23)…, bitter as the cud of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues
(11) But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
(3) Till on the haunting flames we turned our backs
(21) If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs
(9) Gas ! Gas! Quick boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
(2) Knock-kneed , coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
(17) If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
(5)... Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shot. All went lame; all blind;
(27) The old lie : Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori 23

24. Chain image-First person narrative-Time shifts
Book mark
Glance at the bookmark each time you start and finish your leisure reading.
Great
Expectations
- Dickens
Make a bookmark with important information written on it and keep it in a magazine or book that you are reading for pleasure.
PLOT
Pip’s journey to maturity
CHARACTER
Pip - Joe-Magwitch - Estella - Miss H
THEME
Love-Growing up Ambition-Class
STYLE
Chain image-First person narrative-Time shifts

25. Your Own Revision
Use any of the techniques discussed to some do your own revision.
Consider your own learning style and what techniques work most effectively for different subjects or tasks.

26. Techniques Brainstorming Maps and Charts Mind Maps Time sequences
Spider Diagrams
Annotations
Flash Cards
Mnemonics
Flow Charts
Maps and Charts
Time sequences
Bookmarks
Use of Colour and Graphics
Doodles
Storyboards