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Option C - Ecology revision activities

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This page contains some suggestions for revision. To see the big picture, an overview of the whole option, the A3 revision sheets on this page will help. There are two revision sheets, one for the SL core material and a supplementary page for the additional HL material. Completing short questions or cloze activities students are forced to review the whole topic and in doing so prepare an overview of the main concepts in the topic.

The revision list helps students to check that they have covered all the details, and gives a tool to help identify areas in need of extra revision and a checklist of understandings and skills to learn.  The revision list indicates those areas which are additional HL topics.

Description

Lesson starter

Brainstorm the topic with the whole class.  keep notes on the whiteboard. The image below may prompt ideas.

Activity 1 - A3 Revision worksheets

Complete the  A3 revision worksheet for Option C Ecology SL topics
This includes unfinished phrases and missing words about the topic.
Use your lesson notes, and IB text books for help.
Avoid looking for answers on the internet as many answers will be too detailed, or too simple for your IB exams.

Remember this is just a beginning. There are many more details to understand and applications of these ideas to know.

Complete the  A3 revision worksheet for Option C Ecology HL topics

Activity 2  - Compare and improve

Compare your answers with the model answers. 
Make improvements to your answers and note the areas which require further revision.

Model answers for the A3 revision sheets:

Activity 3 - Revision list

The revision list is also useful as it gives students a complete list of the understandings, skills and applications which are important to know for the exams. There are two pages SL and AHL which contains just the higher level extra material.

To do

  • Students read the understandings and the essential questions in the revision list page.

  • Students prepare an answer to one essential question - including details from the understandings section.

  • Students can then compare their answers with others in the class and either;

    • add improvements - if one answer has a detail missing from the other.
    • look up specific details - if both students are unclear
    • ask the teacher a question - if there is a disagreement

Option C - Ecology SL revision list

This pages gives outline details of the content of option D for SL students. There are essential questions and lists of student skills and applications. Helpful for revision. Students can check their understanding...

Option C - Ecology HL revision list

This pages gives outline details of the content of option D for HL students. This includes all the SL sections as well as the additional material. There are essential questions and lists of student skills...

Activity 4  - Hot Seat Challenge

Students set their own challenge to try to memorize parts of the sheet.
Students can begin using look cover test check for 5 points at a time, and gradually build up until they can remember the whole sheet.

When a student is chosen for the 'Hot Seat' they sit in the teachers chair, describe their area of expertise (ie. how much of the sheet they thing they know) and other stuents ask them as many questions as possible in one minute.

Teachers notes

This activity is aimed at those students who need help to make their revision effective, but it is useful for all students.  The three short activities are really just suggestions.  
The worksheet could be a simple homework task.

Suggested lesson plan.

Starter  (10 minutes)

Brainstorm the topic asking students to recall as many parts of the topic as they can.  
Record these on the whiteboard.

Main  (30 minutes)

Students use their text books and notes to complete the unfinished phraes on the worksheet.
Students compare their answers to the model answers provided.

Plenary  (20 minutes)

Hot seat challenge - combined with memorizing activity

Extension work

There are many possibilities for extension. Stuents could 

  • create a mind map of the topic
  • produce lists of questions for the hot seat challenge
  • make a revision presentation on one part of the topic

D.Faure Oct 2012