Last Word

Have students do an acrostic with some term. For example, I've done this after a lesson on the Enlightenment with the word "Enlightenment."

Wordle

Generates a tag cloud based on imported text.

Could be used to process student inputs, look for patterns, or generate text for word splash

At http://www.wordle.net/

Human continuum

Put a line on the ground (I usually use masking tape), and give students a question (e.g., attitudes towards tradition) and ask them to stand on the continuum. The longer you can make the line, the better.

Human Bingo

Create a bingo sheet, with questions in squares--throw in a few fun things, about people, just for grins. Pass out sheets and have students find a person for each square, someone who can answer that question. When sheets are filled in, student return to their seats. Pull student names out of a hat, have students mark bingo sheets. When someone gets bingo, everyone whose name is on the bingo must be able to answer the question for the class. If everyone can do it, it counts as a bingo. You can have edible markers for students to eat them. Another possibility is, for a bingo, both the student with the bingo and the students on the sheet must be able to answer the question.

Good for review before tests, since the questions on the bingo sheet can be either specific terms (e.g., "Can identify Eugene Debs") or general ideas (e.g., "Can name three reasons unions were weak in the Gilded Age")

Source: Wormeli, Summarization in any subject

Crumpled paper review

Students write term on one paper, definition on another, crumple them up and throw in a pile. Students pick up two balls of paper, must find the matching ones.

Moving summarizations

Students come up with actions to 'act out' the meaning of a sequence of events

Wordsplash

"Splash" terms all over a sheet, and have students make relationships between the terms. I usually have students write out a couple sentences on the board using as many terms as they can.

Usually, descriptions of this call for a "predictive" phase before you study, then students check on their predictions. However, I've used it simply as a summing up tool after studying material.

It works effectively both for reviewing specific terms, and for getting students to think about relationships, i.e., go beyond recall.