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?
L = LEFT
R = RIGHT
B = BOTH
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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
Don’t 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
Mid brain
Right Hemisphere
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?