Advice from my Year 11′s on how to revise:

I asked my Year 11′s what advice they would give to year 10 on how to revise for their Year 10 exams. This is the summary of their most popular points:

• Create a revision timetable
• Have little 10 minute breaks every hour.
• Make conclusions after each paragraph
• Just LISTEN in class and think to yourself “do you understand it”
• Use Cue cards for definitions and test yourself until you can remember the answers with ease.
• Get off Facebook/MSN/ichat etc. (loads of students suggest this)-TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF.
• Get Sleep!
• Read through your textbook.
• Concentrate when you are reading, don´t be thinking about other things.
• Make yourself a little revision test on each topic and test yourself.
• Keep your books and notes from Year 10.
• Try and have an area where you do your revision which doesn’t have any things to distract you.
• Always revise the stuff you don’t like first.
• Don’t just copy notes from a book.
• If you have an exam coming u split the subject into topics and learn each topic per night.
• Revise how you want to: drawing pictures could help you to understand.
• Create shortened versions of your information that you are studying, which includes all the main points.

IGCSE Biology Podcast: Air pollution

This podcast covers air pollution by carbon dioxide and methane (the greenhouse gases) and sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which cause global warming.

I have slightly over-edited it so a couple of words are truncated. So where it says “contributor are”, I really mean “contributers are”. Also I am saying “acidified lakes” not “lake” and “birth defects” not “bird defects” (which is what I think it sounds like). I know I should change it but honestly I already sound like three different people on it I have corrected it so often.

Anyway the information is what is important, enjoy!

Air Pollution

allison gardner’s Podcast

Download the MP3 file here  air-pollution

IGCSE game: plant hangman

A very quick and simple hangman game covering some vocabulary linked to plant based topics:

Play this game on the what2learn site

Link:
http://www.what2learn.com/games/play/26728/

IGSE Biology Podcast: Eutrophication and sewage treatment

Second podcast for Cambridge IGCSE Biology: Based on water pollution (chapter 15 of Mary Jones IGCSE Biology textbook)

Water pollution: Eutrophication and sewage treatment

allison gardner’s Podcast

Download the mp3 file water-pollution-2

IGCSE Biology Podcast: Agriculture and soil erosion

This is my first try at a podcast. It relates to the Human Influences on the environment section of the Cambridge IGCSE Biology course. It focuses on the impact of modern technology in agriculture, how this varies between developing and developed countries. It also discusses the causes and effects of soil erosion and how it can be prevented. It is about 4 minutes long. The beginning is a little quiet but I get into my swing towards the end, though still clearly nervous. Hopefully I will get better with my other podcasts!

You can play it online by clicking on the link below:

Alternatively you can download the MP3 file here:
agriculture-and-soil-erosion