Study Skills Workshop

Improve your memory and revision skills

Learning objective
To appreciate how you can exercise your brain to make it work better when learning

Key questions
What do you think of revision or the way you learn? How often do you revise? Where? When? How? What strategies do you already use when revising?

Activity 1
Wake your brain up! Brain Gym Alphabet edit

Brain Gym
Nose/Ear Change Water wheels (in reverse) Double Doodle Letters in the Air Piano Fingers

L = LEFT R = RIGHT B = BOTH A L J L T L B R K R U R C B L B V B D L M L W L E R N R X R F B O B Y B G L P L Z L H R R R I B S B

Activity 2
Building a living brain

There are lots of different ways to make your studying easier and more effective:
But first you need to ask the question

Be clear about what you are aiming to do in your study session.

Today I am going to review Trigonometry or History etc.

Decide how you are going to study

Dont study for any more than twenty minutes at a time. Every twenty minutes take a five to ten minute break. In that five, ten minute break do something physical

Make full use of your ENVIRONMENT, put positive comments up in your room to encourage you.
Lots of air, a warm room can make you drowsy. You need a light room Snacks to keep you going But make sure they are healthy, and drink lots of water Play music that clams you down usually music that has 60 beats per minute

Left Hemisphere

Right Hemisphere

Mid brain

This is the brain stem

And in the middle the Corpus Callosum

The brain stem controls the bodies function such as breathing, and instinct.

The mid brain controls our memory and emotions.

Its important to keep calm when studying because if you are irate, or un-nerved your midbrain shuts down and no learning can take place.

The Left Hemisphere is responsible for language, logic, and detail.

The Right Hemisphere is responsible for music, creativity and visual/spatial skills.

The Corpus Callosum is the key to it all. The Corpus Callosum is a bundle of fibres around 200 million which connect the left and right hemispheres.

It send electrical signals to and fro, making the brain work as one. The goal of the next part is to show you how to create new links so that messages pass quicker and effectively make you smarter because your brain works quicker.

Activity 3
Mnemonics

Mnemonics

BECAUSE
BIG ELEPHANTS CAN ALWAYS UNDERSTAND SMALL ELEPHANTS

Plenary -

review & reflection

Tell me one thing that you have learnt that you will use again?

Extension activities

1-10 in Japanese Can you count?