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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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).

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Purchase of Alaska

Annexation of Hawaii

Imperialism: Economic Interests

Imperialism: Great white Fleet

Imperialism: Social Darwinism

White Man’s Burden

Isolationists

Anti-Imperialists

Monroe Doctrine

Roosevelt CorollaryCuban Revolt

Yellow Press

USS Maine

De Lome Letter

Teller Amendment

The Philippines

Invasion of Cuba

Election of 1900

Spheres of Influence

Boxer Rebellion

Open Door Policy

Theodore Roosevelt

Big Stick Policy

Jones Act

Progressives

Woodrow WilsonWar Guilt Clause

Reservationists

Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

IrrecilablesGreat Migration

Rise of the KKK

Liberty Bonds

Anarchists

Red Scare

Selective Service act

Red Scare

Socialists

Palmer Raids

Schenck vs. US 1919

Espionage and Sedition Acts

NativismMass Media

Grand Ole Opry

Phonographs

Aviation

Charles Lindbergh

Babe Ruth

Jazz

Scientific ManagementReconstruction Finance Corp

President Hoover

Bonus March

General Douglas MacArthur

Farm Holiday AssociationHerbert Hoover

20th Amendment

Polio

New Deal

Larger Federal Government

Limited Welfare State

Brain Trust

Bank Holiday

CCC

Alf Landon

3 R’s

Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Fireside Chats

Prohibition

1932 Election

The Supreme Court

Communism

Great Depression

Good Neighbor PolicyPuerto Rico

Prohibition

Panama Canal

Big Business

Jim Crow Laws

William Howard TaftUnderwood Tariff Act of 1913

Federal Trade Commission

Clayton Antitrust Act

Federal Farm Loan act

Child Labor Act

Robert La Follette

17th Amendment

Trust Buster

Mann Elkins Act of 1910

New Nationalism

16th Amendment

Payne Aldrich Act

Woodrow Wilson

Bull Moose Party

Federal Reserve Act of 1914

Margaret Sanger

NAWSA

W.E.B DuBois

Booker T Washington

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Ida B WellsFarm Problems

Consumer Economy

AutomobilesEugene V. Debs

Marcus Garvey

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

18th Amendment

Scopes Trial

Coolidge Prosperity

Education

Lost Generation

Women in Labor

Sigmund Freud

Divorce

The Flapper

Show Boat

Cars

Teapot Dome

Election of 1928

Fordney McCumber Tariff

Margaret Sanger

Black Pride

The Radio

Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism vs Science

Scopes Trial

ModernismAxis Powers

Mussolini

Totalitarianism

Fascism

Spanish Civil War

Roosevelt Corollary

Adolf Hitler

Neutrality Act of 1935-37

Appeasement

Hitler’s Invasion of Poland

Arsenal of Democracy

Rhineland

Blitzkrieg

Four Freedoms

Sudetenland

Cash and Carry

Lend Lease Act

Atlantic Charter

Pearl HarborWartime propaganda

Internment Camps

Office of War Information

Executive ORder 9066

Double V of Victory

Rosie the RiveterCarrie Chapman

Ida Tarbell

Women Suffrage

The History of the Standard Oil Company

Social Gospel

The JungleLusitania

Preparedness

Wilson “He kept us out of war”

Sussex pledge

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Russian Revolt of 1917

Blockade

Zimmerman Telegram

Trench Warfare

Wilson’s 14 points

Freedom of the Seas

League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

End to secret treaties

Article X (10) in League of Nations

Self Determination

Big four of WWI

War ReparationsProhibition

Christian Values

Progressivism

Herbert Hoover

The Great Depression

Election of 1924

The Lost Generation

John Scopes

Ku Klux Klan

Repeal of 18th Amendment (21st)

Quota Acts

Muckrakers

Scopes Trial

19th Amendment

Harlem Renaissance

Warren HardingWall Street Boom

Black Tuesday

Black Thursday

Gross National Product

Stock Market Speculation

Global Economic Problems

Effects of the Great Depression

Dawes Plan

Debt Moratorium

Federal Farm BoardDwight Eisenhauer

Holocaust

Kamikaze

D-day Invasion

Concentration Camps

Douglas McArthur

Battle of the Bulge

Island Hopping

Battle of Midway

Battle of Okinawa

Harry Truman

Nagasaki

Doolittle Raid

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Atomic Bomb

HiroshimaBig 3 1943

Occupation Zones

Disarmament

Potsdam Conference

Unconditional surrender

Yalta Conference

United Nations

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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

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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

Period 7Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach

About

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

Period 7
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach