Best of the Best...REVISION TECHNIQUES!

Post your ideas for revision strategies and activities as comments below!!! Then pick one that you've not tried before and give it a go!! (And comment to let us know how it goes!).
Lets see if we can find the best of the best revision techniques!!!

Here's one for you to start with: 
(From SLN GeoRevision)

Red Pen Black Pen

The idea is that the two colours work on the two halves of the brain. The black pen signifies the information that you already hold in your conscious memory. The red pen signifies those things in your unconscious memory that you wish to transfer into your conscious memory. The red pen strongly signifies danger and is held by your unconscious memory without realising it.

The revision technique has several stages :

Stage 1 – Produce a concept map to cover a topic you wish to revise e.g. farming (attached). Could be set as a homework, obviously how you set out your concept map is personal to you and students will learn faster by having completed this first step themselves.

Stage 2 – Produce a blank skeleton of your concept map (attached)

Stage 3 – In the lesson ask the students to revise from their concept map for 10 minutes – no longer !

Stage 4 – Turnover the concept map with the answers on it. With your black pen write down everything that you can remember.

Stage 5 – When you cannot remember anymore turn over the answer sheet and then fill in the blanks in red. This is the end of the first evolution.

Stage 6 – Spend 10 minutes revising from the sheet you have been working on.

Repeat from stage 4 !

During the exercise the amount of black ink should increase and the red pen decrease as you transfer more information into your conscious memory.