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Overview
Overview
A brain dump is a structured learning strategy to help learners recall previously learnt information.
A brain dump is a structured learning strategy to help learners recall previously learnt information.
Brain dumps are a great starter activity to see what learners can remember. But they are also useful during a lesson, especially a lesson that is very knowledge or information heavy, because it can allow for learners to 'dump' or recall the information they have taken in to see what gaps they have.
Source - Twitter - Meredith Akers - @meredithakers
Anecdote from Sam:
Anecdote from Sam:
This was really useful for some of my weaker learners during an IB Literature lesson recently. The purpose of the lesson was to introduce them to Ibo culture as well as requiring them to develop their note taking skills. I used a brain dump as a choice activity part way through the lesson for learners to have the opportunity to stop and reflect on how effectively they had been listening to and engaging with the information received thus far. It gave learners that space to then ask me questions about things they had not fully grasped, or forgotten.
Anecdote from Kay:
Anecdote from Kay:
This resource was developed to use with year 7 learners who were in the process of a humanities inquiry investigating the question:
What happened to the Otzi iceman?
Over a series of 3 weeks learners had been acting as detectives and completed a range of activities to gather information and develop an understanding of what happened.
From here, we worked as a class to identify the questions we still had, as well as our gaps in knowledge and understanding.
This process was repeated again to ensure the information was clear for learners. It helped contribute to a learners understanding as this information was then used to construct a detective report to answer their key question.
Learners then used what they knew to establish what they didn't know and what questions they still had, so the activity helps teachers to plan out the direction of the next few lessons.
Resources
Resources
This last, last, last, last activity could be used in a number of ways, a question in each box, an anagram based on keywords, diagrams to label...
Cops and Robbers
Cops and Robbers
Cops and Robbers is another form of a brain dump.
Learners retrieve information about a topic independently (as cops) and are then allowed to steal information from others (as robbers).
Brain, Buddy, Book Retrieval
Brain, Buddy, Book Retrieval
Anecdote from Kay:
Anecdote from Kay:
I developed this resource to support my Year 12 Geography learners develop particular areas within a topic. I give the learners a time limit to brain dump, talk to a buddy and then check in their books or use notes to clarify knowledge. The key in the corner is used to highlight the bullet point so learners can identify areas for revision.
Map your memories
Map your memories
The feedback below comes from a Looking For Learning carried out focusing on the use of the map your memories worksheet
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