By A. Manderson, teacher of Science
I wanted to make a revision lesson more fun and engaging for
my Y7 ICT class, so we used the idea of creating a spider diagram and turned it
on its head. Each bank of desks was allocated one topic we had covered this
year. Students worked in groups and had 5 minutes per topic to write down as
much as they could remember about that topic. They then rotated to the next
table until they had covered them all. Students were encouraged to correct any
errors they found, and to build on any incomplete information. They also
carried their books so that if they saw anything there they didn’t know, or
didn’t know as well, they could take down notes. All students were then given
time to walk around all tables to read through the spider diagrams and again
note down points they needed to concentrate their revision on.
This took about half of the lesson. Whilst students were doing this, I was able to see where the class had gaps in their knowledge and it enabled me to target the revision activities in the second half of the lesson towards those areas that the students needed to concentrate on.
I wanted to make a revision lesson more fun and engaging for
my Y7 ICT class, so we used the idea of creating a spider diagram and turned it
on its head. Each bank of desks was allocated one topic we had covered this
year. Students worked in groups and had 5 minutes per topic to write down as
much as they could remember about that topic. They then rotated to the next
table until they had covered them all. Students were encouraged to correct any
errors they found, and to build on any incomplete information. They also
carried their books so that if they saw anything there they didn’t know, or
didn’t know as well, they could take down notes. All students were then given
time to walk around all tables to read through the spider diagrams and again
note down points they needed to concentrate their revision on. 
This took about half of the lesson. Whilst students were doing this, I was able to see where the class had gaps in their knowledge and it enabled me to target the revision activities in the second half of the lesson towards those areas that the students needed to concentrate on.
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