improve your memory and revision skills
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Study Skills Workshop
Improve your memory and
revision skills
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Learning objective
To appreciate how you can exercise
your brain to make it work better when
learning
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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?
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Activity 1Wake your brain up!
Brain Gym
Alphabet edit
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Brain Gym
Nose/Ear Change
Water wheels (in reverse) Double Doodle Letters in the Air Piano Fingers
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A B C D E F G H IL R B L R B L R B
J K L M N O P R SL R B L R B L R B
T U V W X Y ZL R B L R B L
L = LEFTR = RIGHT
B = BOTH
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Activity 2Building a living
brain
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There are lots of different ways to make yourstudying easier and more effective:
But first you need to ask the question
Be clear about what you are aiming to do in yourstudy session.
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Decide how you are going to study
Dont study for any more than twentyminutes at a time. Every twentyminutes take a five to ten minute break.
In that five, ten minute break do something physical
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Make full use of your ENVIRONMENT, put positivecomments up in your room to encourage you.
You need a light room
Lots of air, a warm room can make you drowsy.
Snacks to keep you going
But make sure they are healthy,
and drink lots of waterPlay music that clams you down usually music that has 60 beatsper minute
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This is the
brain stem
Right HemispherLeft Hemisphere
Mid brain
And in the middle the Corpus Callosum
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The brain stem controls the bodies functionsuch as breathing, and instinct.
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The mid brain controls our memory and emotions.
Its important to keep calm when studying becauseif you are irate, or un-nerved your midbrain shuts
down and no learning can take place.
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The Left Hemisphere is responsible forlanguage, logic, and detail.
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The Right Hemisphere is responsible for music,creativity and visual/spatial skills.
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The Corpus Callosum is the key to it all.The Corpus Callosum is a bundle of fibres around
200 million which connect the left andright 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 tocreate new links so that messages pass quickerand effectively make you smarter because yourbrain works quicker.
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Activity 3Mnemonics
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Mnemonics
BECAUSE
BIG ELEPHANTS CANALWAYS UNDERSTANDSMALL ELEPHANTS
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Plenary - review & reflection
Tell me one thing that you
have learnt that you will useagain?
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Extension activities
1-10 in Japanese
Can you count?