Revision

Revision / review activities that can be adapted to any area of the curriculum.

KS3 revision - get them to design a board game, make up rules etc, and create at least 60 science questions and answers. Prize for best design, q's etc. Some just adapt Snakes and Ladders, but some are very imaginative.

When I was doing A Level Physics, we were routinely horrible to our teacher (lessons were boring). In a rare fit of inspiration she announced that she would punish us by making us each "teach" on a set topic for 10 minutes in the Friday afternoon lesson. We did this every week for a year, and these pupil-lead sessions were the best and most hilarious thing we ever did. I remember in particular one boy filling a bucket attached to a rope with water and whanging it round his head - thereby disproving several important physical theories!

rather than getting them just to look at graphs, tables, etc, cut them up into jigsaw pieces so that in groups they have to rearrange info so that it makes sense, either because it looks right - graphs, say, or because they do research with books, internet, to put it back right eg info on planets. Makes them THINK!!!!

Year 10 - Life and living processes, review of whole unit. Huge piece of paper (4x A1 glued together). Post-it notes with selected keywords on which they must use. Started them off with MRSGREN (initials only) the words 'cells' and 'body systems' (with 7 blank post-its). Huge mind map - whole class participation with reluctants looking up spellings, checking facts etc in text books.
Only half way through but Very impressed with some of their recall ability and its helping them link parts of the module together.

'Walk of Fire'

(topic revision)

Find a clear space on the floor.

Copy some questions onto large pieces of paper (this works best when there are multiple marks available for each question).

Put the easier questions onto pale yellow paper, harder questions onto orange paper and the hardest onto red paper.

Scatter the questions on the floor. A 'fire walker' is chosen. They step onto the question and have to answer it before they move on.

This activity, once set up, can be run in several ways. The amount of time to answer each question can be set -longer on the 'colder' colours, the cards can be placed in a line or scattered like stepping stones so by jumping from hard question to hard question you can move across the floor faster and 'race' against an opposing team.