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	GrudgeBallUK Team-based revision quiz game with a twist. While teams gain points for answering questions correctly, they also get the opportunity to take points away from opposing teams by playing GrudgeBall – shooting the hoop using an indoor basketball set. "Riotous fun for Everyone", as no-one ever said but I'm open to offers if anyone wants to use it as an advertising tagline.
	Cherry-Picking Revision PowerPoint Presentation that encourages students to revise by answering exam questions. There's also a template included so you can add your own questions to the mix.
	Spaced Study A theory of learning that argues, in a nutshell, that students study more effectively and retain more of the information they learn if the study period is spread out over a number of hours / days ("spaced") – than if studying is “crammed” into short intensive blocks. Check this out is you want to know more. And if you want to put the theory into practice, this Families and Households Spaced Study Booklet will help.
	Study Strategies: The Appliance of Science 6 short videos designed to help students develop coherent study strategies through the application of techniques that have more than just a nodding acquaintance with scientific research.
	Using Analogies Exercise designed to help students use sociological analogies to improve student understanding, application and evaluation.
	Testing Times Simple revision board-game
	Connecting Walls Based on the BBC Quiz series students have to solve a range of ready-made online quiz walls: find 4 groups of 4 related ideas within the 3 minute time limit and then explain what connects each group. There's also a facility for teachers to make their own connecting walls.
	AQA GCSE Revision Guides Revision guides that cover Socialisation, Family, Education, Crime and deviance, Social inequality.
	Education Revision Guide A comprehensive set of revision notes annotated with helpful suggestions about how to demonstrate various assessment objectives in written exam answers.
	GCSE Revision Resources A comprehensive set of revision notes covering Education, Deviance, Media, Methods, Culture, Socialisation and Identity.
	A-Level Revision Three revision booklets focused around Religion / Beliefs in Society.
	Personal Learning Checklist Although not a revision tool, per se, PLC's are a simple and effective way to identify what students have covered, feel confident about or need to revise.
	Learning Tables: Crime and Deviance This set of Tables covers: primary quantitative measures of crime, ethnicity, gender, labelling, left realism, Functionalism, Marxism, non-sociological explanations and suicide. Each Table includes condenses information across a range of themes - basic ideas about a topic, evaluation, synoptic links and so forth - to fit an A4 sized format.
	Learning Tables: More Crime and Deviance A further set of Crime and Deviance Tables that covers areas like right realism, crime and locality, global, green and state crime, victimization and more. The format's similar to the Tables above.
	Learning Tables: Families and Households These Tables cover a range of topics - role of family, diversity, marriage and divorce, childhood, etc. - and focus on the basics (analysis and evaluation) rather than anything too convoluted or fancy.
Revision Mapping
Introductory	Sociological Perspectives This material covers a range of perspectives: Structure and Action; Functionalism; Marxism; Feminism; Interactionism and Postmodernism.
Research Methods	This covers: 1. The distinctions between primary and secondary data and quantitative and qualitative data 2. The Research Process and Sampling Techniques 3. The different quantitative and qualitative methods and sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, observation techniques and experiments, and documents and official statistics: Part 1 4. The different quantitative and qualitative methods and sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, observation techniques and experiments, and documents and official statistics: Part 2 5. The Relationship between Positivism, Interpretivism and Sociological Research Methods 6. The theoretical, practical and ethical considerations influencing the choice of topic, choice of method(s) and the conduct of research
Mass Media	Revision maps covering: 1. Different explanations of the relationship between ownership and control of the mass media 2. Different explanations of the relationship between the mass media and ideology 3. Different explanations of the processes of selection and presentation of media content 4. The role of the mass media in representations of age, social class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability
Power and Politics	Revision Maps: 1. The Role of Political Parties and Movements, Pressure / Interest Groups and the Mass Media in the Political Process 2. Explanations of the Nature and Distribution of Power 3. The Role of the Modern State 4. Different Political Ideologies and their Relationship to Different Political Parties 5. The Nature of, and Changes in, Different Forms of Political Participation, including Voting Behaviour
General	Creative Connections: Honeycomb Hexagons is a simple activity is to encourage students to build-up a set of Key Revision Concepts with a visual dimension that should help them understand how and why these concepts can be connected. The activity can be used by individual students or as a classroom game.
Sociology in Focus for AQA AS	Detailed Maps created to support Sociology in Focus for AS textbook: Culture and Identity Families and Households Research Methods Education with Methods
Sociology in Focus for AQA A2	Detailed Maps created to support Sociology in Focus for A2 textbook: Mass Media Crime and Deviance Methodology
Revision Cards	For those who prefer their revision Old Skool...
Family	Definitions and Theories Family and Household Diversity Couples and Children Couples and Children 2 Family and Wider Society
Education	Social Context Inside Schools Educational Achievement
Crime and Deviance	Nature and Definition Measurement, Extent and Distribution Theories Social Control Social Distribution of Crime: Age \| Gender \| Ethnicity \| Region
Mass Media	Basic indication of revision requirements for: Nature and form of the mass media; Media content; Media audiences; Popular culture and Identities.
Theory 1	Postmodernism Marxist/Radical Feminism Functionalism / Marxism Interactionism / Liberal Feminism Weberian / New Right
Theory 2 [Laura Brickwood]	Sociological Theory / Marxism Feminist Perspectives Functionalism and Interactionism
Revision card template	Create your own Revision Cards using this blank template.
Spider Diagrams
Introductory	Defining Sociology Culture and Socialisation Perspectives
Family	Concepts and Definitions \| Concepts and Definitions 2 \| Definitions and Perspectives \| Recent Demographic Change \| Changing Family Patterns \| Social Policy \| Social Policy 2 \| Recent Trends \| Family Diversity \| Family Diversity 2 \| Explanations for Family Diversity \| Power Relationships \| Families and Children \| Dark Side of Family Life \| Social Change \| Power Relationships
Crime and Deviance	Defining Crime and Deviance 1 Defining Crime and Deviance 2 Social Reactions to Deviance
Research Methods	Process Methods Methodology
Education	Role Differential Achievement State Policies School Relationships and Processes
Mass Media	Ownership and Control Ideology Content selection, Representation and Presentation Audiences
Wealth, Poverty, Welfare	Definitions Explaining Inequality Poverty: Existence ad Persistence Solutions to Poverty Welfare Provision

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