1. https://tdahistory.wordpress.com/

2. How to consolidate your knowledge
To combine together to become more effective, stronger and more certain. Solidify.

3. How to consolidate your knowledge
1. Working Memory vs Long Term Memory.
2. Desirable Difficulties.
3. Spacing Effect.
4. Testing Effect.
OPEN LINK IN CHROME – First video Didau “How We Learn”

4. Choosing the lightest weight at the gym makes lifting it NOW easy
Choosing the lightest weight at the gym makes lifting it NOW easy. You can do lots of repetitions and hardly feel a thing.
BUT…this will result in very little, long term muscle development.
Choosing a heavier weight at the gym makes lifting NOW a bit more of a struggle. You have to work at it. It feels a bit more difficult.
BUT…this is much more likely to result in long term muscle development.

5. Simple rules…
Consolidate in chunks of time. Revise for 25 minutes. Break for 10. After 3 sessions of 25 minutes. Stop. Pomodoro. Pomodoro without distractions. Phone off. TV off. Music off. Eat well, sleep well and drink plenty of water. Vary your consolidation techniques. Return to material several times. Over-learn. Apply knowledge by planning/writing practice answers.

7. 1. Chunk
2. Repeat
3. Apply
4. Test

8. 1. Chunk

9. 2. Repeat

10. 3. Apply Medicine (Paper 1) Question 3:
Explain one way in which treatments were similar in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. (4 mark).
Judgement/Argument:
For Factors:
Against Factors:
-evidence:

11. 4. Test
Get a friend or family member to test you. Give them your Knowledge organiser/Revision Guide/Crib sheets/Flashcards. Get them to ask you 10 questions at a time.
Test yourself 1: Use your phone or device (outside of school), record yourself asking sets of questions on each topic. Play the questions back to yourself at a later time, pausing to answer each one.
Test yourself 2: Plan/write an exam answer on the topic you have been consolidating.
Test yourself 3: Use your flash cards or crib sheets to test yourself. Read through them. Turn them over and try to recall the information each one from memory.
Self test-phone record questions

12. The 5 Day Study Plan
Start Early:
More than any other technique, the key to performing well on exams is starting early and using short, frequent study sessions.
The human brain learns academic material faster and better on an exam if done in brief blocks of time spread out over longer periods of time, rather than in an few lengthy sessions.
For example, you will perform better on an exam if you spend one hour studying each day for 20 days than if you spend 10 hours studying each day for two days before an exam.
Many students have found the Five Day Study Plan gets good results.
Keys to the Five Day Plan:
1. You space out your learning over a period of 5 days.
2. During each day, you prepare a new chapter or chunk of information, and then review previous material.
3. Divide material so you can work on it in chunks.
4. Use active learning strategies (writing and reciting) to study the material.
5. Use self-testing techniques to monitor your learning.

13. Break material down into chunks
Break material down into chunks. A chapter/topic/section on your knowledge Organiser/PLC/Revision Guide.
Plan to spend about 1-1 ½ hours studying on each of the 5 days.
Material is worked on in 2 ways. You prepare and you review.
Day 1: Tuesday
Prepare 1st chunk- 30 minutes.
Day 2: Wednesday
Prepare 2nd chunk – 30 minutes.
Review 1st chunk- 15 minutes.
Day 3: Thursday
Prepare 3rd chunk- 30 minutes.
Review 2nd chunk- 15 minutes.
Review 1st chunk -10 minutes.
Day 4: Friday
Prepare 4th chunk-30 minutes.
Review 3rd chunk- 15 minutes.
Review 2nd chunk- 10 minutes.
Review 1st chunk-5 minutes.
Day 5: Sunday
Review 4th chunk- 20 minutes.
Review 2nd chunk -10 minutes.
Review 1st chunk – 5 minutes.
SELF-TEST on ALL.

14. Taking efficient and effective notes: Cornell Method

15. Taking efficient and effective notes: Crib sheets
Leon Trotsky
Biography
Beliefs and politics:
Unit 1
Groups and political affiliations:
Individuals/
groups
Change/continuity
Events
Key Terminology
Timeline
Summary paragraph/10 bullet points:
Summary paragraph/10 bullet points:

16. Taking efficient and effective notes: SQ3R
SQ3R : The SQ3R is a systematic method designed for studying a textbook. 1. SURVEY: Glance over the headings in the chapter to see the few big points that will be developed. Also read the final summary paragraph if the chapter has one. This survey should not take more than a minute or two and will show the main ideas around which the discussion will cluster. This will help you organize the ideas as you read them later. 2. QUESTION: Now begin to work. Turn the first heading into a question. This will give you a specific purpose for reading the material and thereby increase comprehension. It will bring to mind information already known, thus helping you to understand that section more quickly. The question will also make important points stand out at the same time that explanatory detail is recognized as such. 3. READ: Read to answer that question, i.e. to the end of the first headed section. This is not a passive plodding along each line, but an active search for the answer. 4. RECITE: Having read the first section, look away from the book and try to recite the answer to your question IN YOUR OWN WORDS. If you can do this you know what is in the book; if not then glance over the section again. Repeat these first 4 steps for each section. 5. REVIEW: When the lesson has been read through in this way, look over your notes to get a birds- eye view of the points and their relationship and check your memory of the content by reciting the major sub points under each heading. This checking of memory can be done by covering up the notes and trying to recall the main points. Then expose each major point and try to recall the sub points listed under it.

17. Taking efficient and effective notes: Breaking down big topics:
The Lotus Diagram.

19. Anglo-Saxon council of advisors. Anglo-Saxon Earl of Wessex.
Flash Cards 1
Date:
14th October 1066 1
Key term:
The Witan 1
Individual:
Harold Godwinson 2
Event:
Battle of Hastings
Harold Godwinson vs William Duke of Normandy.
Shield wall vs feigned retreat and cavalry.
Etc. etc. 2
Definition/examples:
Anglo-Saxon council of advisors.
Gyrth was on Edward the Confessor’s Witan.
Advised on finance, military strategy and future monarchs.
Etc. etc. 2
Description:
Anglo-Saxon Earl of Wessex.
Defeated by William at Battle of Hastings
Etc. etc.

20. a) Chronology/Timelines
Flash Cards
a) Chronology/Timelines
c) Exam answer planning
b) Self testing.