Summarising in essence

Design personalised number plates as a revision exercise

Overview As a revision exercise, get students to design personalised number plates for historical characters they have studied. Accompany each one with a [...]

30th July 2018

Using “Rhyming Timelines” for revision

Overview At the end of a unit of study, divide a list of key words, terms, dates or invididuals among the class. Challenge each student to create a rhyming [...]

22nd January 2018

Using “Speed Dating” to share facts and opinions in the classroom

Overview The speed-dating format is designed to help students spot comparisons and contrasts between different ideas, answers or categories of information. [...]

8th November 2017

Using hand gestures to highlight changing relations between key groups

19th October 2017

Collate “Historical Photobombs” into a short story to consolidate the ‘Big Picture’

8th October 2017

Convert statistics into infographics

Overview Including hard data to back up arguments is an important skill for students to develop. Moreover, statistics are sometimes difficult to absorb [...]

30th November 2016

Design a logo reflecting the aims & methods of individuals or organisations

Overview After studying individuals, parties or organisations, challenge students to design a logo which summarises their essential aims, methods, [...]

11th October 2016

Protest placards: design, anticipate, react

Overview When studying an issue, event or personality which is open to different interpretations, get students to design a placard summarising their [...]

1st October 2016

Using limericks as a revision tool

Overview As part of a ‘choose your own homework‘ menu, give students the option to produce a set of limericks to help them memorise some key [...]

24th September 2016

Create a ClickBait Headline as a starter/plenary/revision exercise

27th July 2015

Miming, Freeze-Framing, Body Sculptures

With younger students especially, thinking about how to represent what has been studied can be a useful learning experience. The following techniques are [...]

8th July 2015

Design a “Breaking News!” Screenshot

In order to get students thinking about the essence of a topic, ask them to produce a “Breaking News!” screenshot using the ClassTools Breaking [...]

15th May 2015

Create a subject-specific meme poster for classroom display

18th March 2015

Creative Acronyms for Topic Revision/Introductions

For revision purposes, creating memory words, with each letter representing the first letter of another key word, is an effective way of getting students [...]

12th February 2015

“Create a Google Doodle to represent our topic”

At the close of a topic or as a revision exercise, ask students to design their own ‘Google Doodle’ to represent the essence of the subject. [...]

10th February 2015

Design a Cartoon

For a homework exercise, get students to design a political cartoon to illustrate one key aspect of the topic from either a negative or a positive [...]

1st February 2015

Speech-bubble PostIts onto paintings / photos / cartoons

31st January 2015