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.

Taboo

Students create taboo cards--write the term, and five words that can't be used as clues. Then one person from the other team tries to get his/her team to guess the term without saying any of the taboo words.

Good for review of terms, students enjoy it.

Frayer model

Four boxes around concept: essential characteristics, nonessential characteristics, examples, nonexamples. See Wormeli, Summarization in Any Subject

This worked well for summarizing primal religions.

Could be useful for abstract concepts, like absolutism or constitutionalism.

Have students write it on the board so they can compare.

P-M-I

See Wormeli. Good for getting discussion on ethical isses, e.g., evaluation Peter the Great's westernization program

3-2-1

Three questions, the first calling for three answers, the next for two, the last for one.

For example:

What were three scientific discoveries in the Scientific Revolution?
What were two ways in which those discoveries affected people's lives?
What is one aspect of life not affected by those discoveries?

Create a test

Have students write test questions.