1. LO: How to Revise

2. Some revision ideas
Just writing notes is boring and just reading
them through doesn't always work. Here are a
few alternatives:

3. Do something with your facts and information:
Make graphs, charts and illustrations - draw pictures around the text to sum it up - make flash cards of dates, operations, key terms,
facts - make colourful mind maps - illustrate the story - make a concept map for an event showing who,
what, when, where and why - write an A-Z of the topic - write a story from the point of view of an inanimate
object

4. Verbalise the information in some way:
Record your notes and play them back (you can download free podcasting software called ‘Audacity’ and make it into mp3 files to put on your iPod)
Create songs/mnemonics to remember key facts
Discuss the topic with another student or teach a bit of the topic to each other
Tell someone else about your topic and get them to take notes on what you say

5. Be active:
- Write a quiz/make a game to play (with the
answers!!)
- Get big marker pens out and make diagrams - Prepare a presentation on your topic - Type up a summary of your notes - Write the story out, cut it up and put it
back together - Skim read the source and summarise it in a
few sentences, summarise that until you get
one word - Make posters

6. - In your mind, walk yourself through an
imaginary version of the topic as if you
were there
- Write key words from the story on post-its,
stick them to things in the room.
- Walk around the room telling yourself the story until
you can imagine the walk and tell the story in your
head
- Write a lesson/activity for teaching the topic to the younger students.

7. Some silly ideas you need ‘reasoning’ for:
- Who would win in a fight between
- Link two ideas together in five steps
60 seconds to prove your point
‘Arrest’ a character and justify their actions
What would have happened if …? (virtual history)
Put your music on shuffle, relate that song to the topic
Make a coat of arms for a person from the course
Make Top Trumps for 6 people/weapons/events, how
would they be scored? Justify your scoring
- Make a living graph showing the experiences of
people over time, did it get better or worse?

8. Good revision sites: