Student-Made Review Booklets

A very interesting idea was presented last week in our Grade 11 presentations. We were shown how to make little review booklets. These can serve as a quick reference material for the student, a study guide, perhaps even as a formula sheet for a test. I liked that this approach requires the students to make their own (as opposed to using a pre-made reference sheet). In grade 8, my history teacher had us make a table of contents in the front of our binders. We'd add to the table of contents as we took notes (and put page numbers on the top corners of our notes). This was a great lesson in organization and I see something similar in this. By this method, students have a short reference of everything they need to know, which may help their studying (since textbooks can be cumbersome sometimes). This would be a great method for physics as well, which has a lot of content and can be difficult to organize.