Assessing Understanding
Students revisit the Key Terms Traffic Light Activity (see page 7) and assess their understanding of the concepts
covered in these two lessons. They may be encouraged to make flash cards for each key word. This way, the
consolidation activity for the next lesson can be playing “heads up” in pairs. One student holds up to their
forehead the flash card with the key word being shown to their partner, who has to give them clues about the
key word (e.g. definition).
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Dixon, T. (2019). PTSD: Student Workbook Teacher Edition. Themantic Education.
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