Interleaved retrieval · Year 13 Economics
A pit stop is a four-question retrieval starter, run at the start of a lesson. Unlike a normal recap, it's built on interleaved retrieval practice: instead of only reviewing what you just taught, you deliberately reach back to several earlier points in the course — a topic from last lesson, last week, last month, and last year — in the same four minutes.
Retrieving spaced-out material is harder than reviewing what's fresh, and that difficulty is the point: it's what makes the memory stick and builds the connections between topics that exam answers depend on.
The four slots always mean the same thing — last lesson, last week, last month, last year — but which question fills each one is up to you. Every school sequences its scheme of work differently, so pick whichever topic from the bank actually was covered last lesson, last week, etc. for your class.
Build the pit stop, then hit Present to put it on the board full-screen. Students answer in black pen; click a card to reveal the model answer and mark corrections in purple.