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Topic 5 - Evolution SL revision activities

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A single page revision summary of the Evolution SL topic.

If you want to see the all the different aspects of this topic on a single A4 sheet this page will help you. By completing short questions or cloze activities students are forced to review the whole topic and complete an overview of the main concepts in the topic.

It helps students to identify areas in need of extra revision and gives less confident students a useful set of facts to learn.

Description

Lesson starter

Brainstorm the topic as a whole class. Keep notes of key ideas.
The image below may prompt ideas.

Activity 1 - A3 Revision worksheet

Complete the Evoloution topic A3 revision worksheet of 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.

Activity 2 - Corrections & Improvement

Students compare answers with other students & use the model answers

Make improvements to the answers and note any areas which are less well understood and require further revision.

Activity 3 - Physical space memory race

In this activity students have answers at one side of the room and questions at the other, and have to complete the answers a rapidly as possible using their memory. The dilemma is to decide how many answers to remember at a time.

To Do

  1. Students work individually.
  2. Students first sit in their place for 5 minutes (like IB exam reading time) and study a series of questions, trying to remember one or several of the questions, looking for links, identifying easy or difficult questions.
  3. Then the 'race' begins and students move to the other side of the room to look for answers to the questions they have memorised.
  4. Everyone chooses their own strategy. One question at a time is effective and reduces mistakes. Two or three questions at a time is faster, but more risky.
  5. The 'winner' is the first to complete all the answers correctly. (Of course everyone is a winner if they have learned some biology during the lesson)

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 phrases on the worksheet.
Students compare their answers to the model answers provided.

Plenary (20 minutes)

The Connect extend, challenge activity could be combined with a memorizing activity.
It should help the students to make links to their prior knowledge, and to identify areas to revise.

There are plenty of possibilities to enhance this activity. For example, write ideas on post-it notes and share them with the whole class or to work as a whole class around the interactive whiteboard.

Extension work

There are many possibilities for extension. Students could

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

Alternative plenary - 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 students ask them as many questions as possible in one minute.

Another word cloud

Here is the evolution key terms tree diagram (for Niamh)