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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

Learn More

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

Failure of Russo-Japanese War

Underestimation of Japan

Trans-Siberian railway - unfinished!

Accidental conflict with Britain

Surrender of Port Arthur

Battle of Mukden

Battle of Tsushima

Humiliation of Russia

Poor harvests 1892/1902

Famine

Strikes in the towns

Political assassinations - eg Plehve (MInister of the Interior)

Leo Tolstoy -'open letter to the Tsar'

Putilov Steelworks

Father Gapon

'Little Father'

'Bloody Sunday'

Petition to the Tsar

Assassination of Grand Duke Sergei

Mutiny on the Potemkin

Russification

Kishinev Pogrom

August Manifesto

Nicholas II

Sergei Witte

Great Spurt

General strikes in St Petersburg and Moscow

Soviets - workers' councils in the cities

October Manifesto

Growth of radicalism because protest and criticism was not allowed

Growth of the intelligentsia who wanted change

High taxation caused poverty for peasants with little benefit - taxation was to pay for industrialisation

By October, all groups had joined protest: peasants, proletariat and middle classes

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

Explain why there was a revolution in Russia in 1905. [10]
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

Explain why there was a revolution in Russia in 1905. [10]Instructions | 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]

Explain why there was a revolution in Russia in 1905. [10]
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach