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Hexagons Generator (HTML5 / Word)!

A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample]
You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

Hexagon learning allows students to identify links between factors very effectively. Students categorise and link factors together for deeper understanding of the relationship between factors. I have written a detailed blogpost about hexagon learning here.

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2. Introduction / Instructions for students

HEXAGON ESSAY-PLANNING TOOL. DRAG and DROP these hexagons into categories of your choice. You can color-code hexagons, and can create new hexagons (e.g. as titles for each group) by double-clicking anywhere on the canvas. When you are finished, you can use your work as the basis of an essay plan, presentation or project!

3. Hexagons Text: separate each with a newline

Causes for Union victory in the Civil War

Green = primary sources added at the end into appropriate categories

Consequences of the Black Death

Orange = handwritten hexagons based on video notes

Causes for Stalin's rise to power

Sweets given to each team for identifying factors not outlined in original hexagons

Hexagon Generator - Word

Print off your own worksheet version

Hexagon Generator - HTML5

Use your hexagons directly on the Interactive Whiteboard

World War One Historiography

"Arrange the historians for a dinner party: no arguments allowed!"

Consequences of the Black Death

Great teamwork from Year 7 students

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Using Hexagon Learning for categorisation, linkage and prioritisation

Blank Hexagons: Downloadable Word template

HTML5 Hexagons: The Black Death (from ActiveHistory).

Downloadable Hexagons: World War One Historiography (from ActiveHistory).

HTML5 Hexagons Word Hexagons (.docx) Cancel

King Lear

Goneril

Regan

Edmund

Edgar

The Fool

Cordelia

truth-teller

Harps on Lear's foolishness.

Helps to drive Lear mad.

Is able to speak without the inhibitions of custom and society.

Has the audience on their side.

Something between a "pimp and a gigolo."

Oswald

Arouses sympathy in spite of his evil deeds.

Drawn to Cornwall at their first meeting

Purely functional.

Acts as a commentator and chorus.

Develops by role playing.

Gloucester

Easily deceived.

Believes in astrology.

Dies of joy.

Believe they are doing their duty.

Attacks Lear's knights as part of a strategy.

Violently jealous.

Proud.

Opposite sides of the moral fence.

Cornwall

Humane sentiments are regarded as vices.

Flattered for so long he can no longer distinguish the genuine and the false.

His rage is a measure of his disappointment.

His interactions show he has not been entirely ruined by absolute power.

He realises that all human life is inescapably tragic.

He oscillates between hope and despair.

Hexagons Generator (HTML5 / Word)!

A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample]
You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

1. Title:

2. Introduction / Instructions for students

3. Hexagons Text: separate each with a newline

Causes for Union victory in the Civil War

Consequences of the Black Death

Causes for Stalin's rise to power

Hexagon Generator - Word

Hexagon Generator - HTML5

World War One Historiography

Consequences of the Black Death

Learn More

King Lear 2
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach

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Hexagons Generator (HTML5 / Word)!

A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample] You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

1. Title:

2. Introduction / Instructions for students

3. Hexagons Text: separate each with a newline

Causes for Union victory in the Civil War

Consequences of the Black Death

Causes for Stalin's rise to power

Hexagon Generator - Word

Hexagon Generator - HTML5

World War One Historiography

Consequences of the Black Death

Learn More

King Lear 2Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach

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A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample]
You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

King Lear 2
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach