GrudgeBallUK: Making Revision More Fun
I found this idea on a blog called Engaging Them All run by Kara Wilkins and while I’ve made a few slight additions / modifications what I describe below is essentially her work. Grudgeball is basically a team-based revision quiz game with a twist. While teams gain points for answering questions correctly, they also get […]
Spaced Study: What It Is (and How To Do It)
Spaced Study or Spaced Practice is a theory of learning that argues, in a nutshell, that students study more effectively and retain more of the information they learn if the study period is “spaced” – or spread out over a number of hours / days – than if studying is “crammed” into short intensive blocks. […]
GCSE Psychology: Revision Booklet
The final offering in this short GCSE Psychology series is a revision booklet by R Cummins of Knowsley College that covers both Unit 1: Making sense of other people (Memory, Non-verbal communication, Development of personality, Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination and Research methods). Unit 2: Understanding other people (Learning, Social influence, Sex and Gender, Aggression, and […]
GCSE Psychology: Unit 2
Having posted stuff for AQA Psychology Unit 1 it’s probably only fair to do the same for Unit 2 so today’s post focuses on two offerings 1. Understanding Other People: This resource, created by T Mitchell, consists of information and activities – plus a few revision tips – focused on various aspects of Conditioning. There’s […]
GCSE Psychology: Unit 1
Having spent the past few weeks furiously editing videos we’re licensing to a couple of British and American publishers, one of the joys of having a bit of spare time is the opportunity for a random-trawl through my hard drives looking for stuff that “might be useful to someone, sometime”. The stuff I’ve selected today […]
What’s in the Envelope?
This activity from Sharon Martin is relatively simple to set-up and run and, as an added bonus, can be used with any area of the Specification (both Psychology and Sociology): this example is based on the Sociology of Crime and Deviance. The activity is mainly for revision / recap sessions, although there’s probably no reason […]
Maths in Psychology
Three more documents, authored by Dr. Julia Russell and salvaged by yours-truly from the Uniview archive, these focus on the Maths in Psychology component recently introduced into the a-level the Psychology Specification. The basic format for each document is a brief outline of a specific study followed by exam-style questions and answers to these questions. […]
Using Analogies in Sociology
Although analogies aren’t always widely used in sociology teaching – with the exception of the organismic analogy conventionally used to introduce Functionalism and the “Warm Bath” analogy used in relation to Functionalist views on Family Life – I’ve always felt that, used carefully and with suitable warnings not to stretch them too far, they can […]
Why is Gaz in Court for Mugging?
A second example of Jill Swale’s work, lovingly-culled from the ATSS archive, is based around the requirement for students to “solve a mystery by selecting and ordering relevant material through group discussion”. In terms of game mechanics, this is a relatively simple sift-sort-match exercise: students work in small groups to link case study material to […]
Testing Times
Testing Times is a relatively-simple board game, adapted from an original idea by Sally Stewart, designed to help students revise. The game is played in small classroom groups in the presence of a teacher because teachers will need to adjudicate student answers in order to sort the right from the wrong. Probably. Although the original […]