A template to play revision connect four. Split class into 2 teams. Take it in turns asking each team a question if they get it correct they choose to where they want to place a token. Click on the circle once to change to red and again to turn yellow. Usual rules then apply.

This idea sprang up from teaching a particular difficult Year 9 class (maybe pushing it in terms of age, but they loved it). Every student is given a card at the beginning of the lesson and explained that if they work hard and show good behavior their card will be ticked off. Each row completed equals a different reward. At first I rewarded everything and we went through lots of cards. Answering questions, not talking when others are speaking, completing work etc. This worked very well with this class as students start to see and hear that others are getting rewarded. By the end other teachers of the class stole this idea. I printed 4 to an A4 page and It can be stuck in the back of their books i printed it on card and its was their responsibility to bring it. If they loose it they start again.

I use this for either a revision/consolidation/homework task. I change the headings and subheadings depending on the topic we are studing. Students then have to recap what they have learn trying to be concise. They also include an image which either best sums up the topic or they draw one. Then in the grey boxes they sum up the topic in key details. This works for lots of subjects and I have done it for history, sociology and RE. It also works well for book reviews.

A quick revision lesson activity. Print on A3 laminate. Students can then write their own questions on the sheet and then have a go at answering them. Questions get harder based around Bloom’s Taxonomy.

This lesson looks at the 1930’s and Popular Culture during this period. Students look at changes to cinema, literature, and other forms of entertainment. This lesson is teacher led but is open to question students, with questions built in to prompt discussion. There are challenge tasks to stretch and challenge the top end. As well as a GCSE question to practice with sentence starters to help stud nets who need it. This lesson forms a SOW for AQA America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality.

A lesson that looks at the Ku Klux Klan , and their rise and fall during the 1920s . This lesson forms part of a SOW for AQA America 1920- 1973 Opportunity and Inequality. The lesson includes a GCSE question, with sentence starters for those who need them, as well as challenge tasks to stretch and challenge the top end.

A lesson aimed at year 9 that looks at why Hitler and the Nazis were democratically elected in 1932, students do a hierarchy task followed by a source question and GCSE styled essay question both with sentence starters. There is a model paragraph to evaluate for the essay styled question. Some challenge tasks are included to stretch the top end.

This lesson focuses upon source skills and GCSE styled questions. This lesson builds upon the previous lesson that looked at life in trenches. Students work through questions with sentence starters, key words and model answers. You can build in peer and self assessment with the model answers. Question include: - How are they different? - Why are they different? - Which is most convincing? The worksheet allows you to work through source looking at Nature, Origin, Author, Audience and Purpose.

An introductory lesson into the history of medicine starting with the prehistoric period. This lesson gets students to gain a chronology of the topic, putting together a time line using facts, dates and time periods. Students then look at the Prehistoric period and use sources to work out what medicine and health was like at the time period, source include Otzi, trepanned skull etc. Lesson has a GCSE styled question

These were designed to engage and push less able students to challenge themselves as well as Gifted and Talented students. These can be handed out to individual students throughout the lesson or as they come in, by the end of the lesson they need to prove they have done this can be rewarded by students are happy with Praise points. The idea is to keep them secret from the rest of the class to increase engagement with it as it adds mystery. This worked very well with a lower set as it got them to use connectives and improve their work perhaps when they wouldn’t have. As a history teacher there is a a restyled version, “Royal Assignments” as it go with my Year 7 Scheme on William the Conqueror

A resource that works well for a recap topic. Fill the grid with questions or topics. Students then roll dice and answer the question or describe/give facts/ explain the topic. Works well as a revision task at the end of a topic.

This lesson approaches the Titanic from a different angle looking at what the titanic reveals about the Edwardian period. Students look at a range of sources from pictures, menus, etc to back up points about the Edwardian. There is a worksheet, GCSE styled question, with sentence starters and a model answer. Students also have a literacy focus where they need to correct mistakes to the model answer. The homework tasks involve students getting given a passenger to investigate. Students loved this as each student got a unique passenger with their own boarding pass which they fed back their findings to in the next lesson.

A revision game for History of Public Health GCSE topic, students use this to recap topic and break up a lesson.

This was created to recap an entire topic. Each space is a particular topic, there is one question to buy to the topic and subsequent questions other people who land on it. If they fail to answer it the cost is double. Let the student choose the costs of the topic properties, the harder topics can be made more expensive. Laminate the board and resources. Let the student choose the The resource includes an editable board, editable property cards, editable chance cards and money tokens.

This is from a T&L Breakfast that I did on some approaches to stretch and challenge. It aims to give some ideas that work on challenging all students not just the most able. If you try any of the ideas would be good to get some feedback on them. What works in some classes doesn’t necessarily work in others.

A lesson on the causes of prohibition for a 3 year GCSE for AQA America 1920 -1973. The lesson looks at what was prohibition and focuses on why it was introduced, there are a range of sources for students to look at and work out their message using the knowledge just gained. The starter is the recap wheel which once clicked will spin and land on a topic that the table must list everything they can remember about it. There is also a GCSE question with sentence starters for students who need it and throughout the lesson there are challenge tasks to stretch the top end.

A collection of revision materials based around Nazi Germany but the format could be adapted for other topics. Includes, Battle Ships, Draughts (Checkers), and Ludo (Frustration). Great way to revise topics and gets students super engaged.

Students learn about the introduction of the feudal system and how it gave William control. There is a role play task. Followed by a scaffolded GCSe styled question. With a writing frame for those than need it, as well as challenge tasks to stretch the top end.