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.
1. Title:
2. Introduction / Instructions for students
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!"
lack of clear policies; divisions between socialists and liberals
decision to continue the war
failure to legitimise peasant take-over of land
refusal to give national minorities a degree of autonomy
decision to launch Summer Offensive in June
Kornilov affair
Bolsheviks opposed the war
'Peace, Bread and All Power' appealed to workers and peasants
leadership of Lenin
Evaluate the statement: It was the weakness of the Provisional Government that brought about the October Revolution rather than the strengths of the Bolsheviks Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach
