Description

When students say they understand the material but struggle to recall it, pull a card from Strengthen the Learning.

This green Level Up Teacher Tool Deck includes adaptable review and retrieval activities that help students revisit important content, strengthen connections, and reinforce learning in meaningful ways. The strategies move beyond passive review by asking students to remember, organize, explain, compare, and apply what they have learned.

Use this deck when:

• A test or assessment is approaching
• Students say they “know it” but cannot recall it
• Learning needs reinforcement
• Students need meaningful review
• You want students to retrieve information without relying immediately on notes
• Important concepts need to be revisited or connected

What Is Included

This digital deck includes review and retrieval activities such as:

• Brain dumps and memory challenges
• Concept-mapping and connection activities
• Collaborative review games
• Error analysis
• Sorting and matching tasks
• Student-generated questions and examples
• Vocabulary and content reinforcement
• Activities that require students to explain how ideas connect

Each activity includes:

• Estimated activity length
• Suggested grouping
• Amount of teacher preparation
• Guidance on when the activity works best
• Step-by-step directions
• Suggested classroom applications
• A quick twist or variation
• Suggested target-language readiness for World Language classrooms

Meaningful Review for Any Subject

The activities are intentionally content-neutral and can be adapted for:

• Elementary and secondary classrooms
• Math
• Science
• Social studies
• ELA
• Fine arts
• World languages
• Career and technical education
• Intervention and enrichment groups

Use the cards with vocabulary, key concepts, reading content, historical events, scientific processes, mathematical procedures, or material from any current unit. Teachers provide the content; the cards provide the review structure.

Why Teachers Will Love This Deck

Strengthen the Learning helps teachers replace repetitive worksheets and passive study time with active retrieval and purposeful review. Students practice recalling what they know, identifying gaps, making connections, and explaining their reasoning.

Use the cards throughout a unit, before an assessment, after a break, or anytime students need to revisit important learning.

Digital Product

This purchase includes the digital Strengthen the Learning card deck. No physical cards will be shipped with this purchase.

Prefer printed cards? Somewhere to Share will begin offering physical Level Up card decks in November 2026.

Looking for the Complete Collection?

This deck is also available as part of the Level Up Teacher Tool Deck Bundle, which includes all six digital decks:

• Start the Conversation
• Change the Energy
• Strengthen the Learning
• Deepen the Thinking
• Demonstrate Understanding
• Middle Learners