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What makes an effective RVHS cue card?

Front side:

No more than 3 bullet points of information. Bullet point should be one line long.

(This should be created from memory and then checked with notes!)

Images can be included

Colour coding into themes is encouraged

Reverse: one word or phrase that signposts what the cue card is about.

Ask your students to make a note of the topic linked to the PLC in the bottom right hand corner.

Golden rules of cue cards- Retrieve, Re-order (shuffle) & repeat

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What makes an effective cue card?

Muscle tissue contains fibers, muscle gain is the damage of the fibers that then repair

Atrophy is when muscles waste away, normally due to lack of physical activity.

Hypertrophy is an increase and growth of muscle cells

Muscle growth vs wastage

Muscles:

Encourage our students to ...

Play an active revision game using their cue cards. Why not tag this as part of their assignment?

Using the cue cards that you have created, stack them all into a pile and hand to your partner. (Mum, dad, brother, sister, cat, dog etc…)

Ask them to read out the word/ phrase on the reverse of the card.

If you can recall MOST of the information- you win the card. If you can’t- they win the card.

Whoever has the most cards at the end of the pack, wins.

Tip- the cards you couldn’t recall facts for, must then