Revision Fun (1)

“Revision” and “fun” are words that you usually don’t find in the same sentence. But there are games that children already play and enjoy that would be perfect for revision.

This time we’ll look at Trivial Pursuit. Have you ever played it?

If not, it’s basically like this: There’s a board, there are packs of question cards in four colours. You move around the board with your game piece. When you land on a color, you pick up a card.

You answer the question.

If you get it right, you win a token… a “slice of pizza”.

If you get it wrong, the card goes to the bottom of the deck.

So Trivial Pursuit can be adapted as a perfect revision tool. Rather than learning trivial facts from the standard box, make your own cards! Create cards that match whatever the next exam, test or task is going to be.

Since more than one will be playing, if you’re not all studying the same thing at the same level, make separate cards in four different colors for each individual player. Each answer your own questions.

Don’t wait until the end of the course, semester or schoolyear. Start preparing relevant cards right at the beginning and add to the decks of cards as the course progresses. Just pull out the relevant facts and put them on cards. Doing that is part of the learning process with younger ones. Do it together and let them decorate the cards. Older students can make their own. Play it a couple of times a week and those facts will drill into your brains. Have fun.