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!"
There are approximately 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements in Nairobi representing 60% of the Nairobi population and occupying just 6% of the land. Kibera houses about 250,000 of these people. Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa and one of the biggest in the world.
The Government owns all the land. 10% of people are shack owners and many of these people own many other shacks and let them out to tenants. The remaining 90% of residents are tenants with no rights.
The average size of shack in this area is 12ft x 12ft built with mud walls, a corrugated tin roof with a dirt or concrete floor. The cost is about KES 700 per Month (£6). These shacks often house up to 8 or more with many sleeping on the floor.
The original settlers were the Nubian people from the Kenyan/Sudanese border – they now occupy about 15% of Kibera, are mostly Muslim and are also mostly shack owners. The other shack owners are mostly Kikuyu (the majority tribe in Nairobi) – although in most cases they do not live there but are absentee landlords. The majority of the tenants are Luo, Luhya and some Kamba – these people are from the west of Kenya. There are many tensions in Kibera, particularly tribal tensions between the Luo & Kikuyu, but also between landlord and tenant and those with and without jobs.
