Overview Charting the changing relationship between nations and individuals over time is an important part of identifying key turning points as well as [...]

Overview Students are presented with four simple images (or statements) and challenged to give a reasoned answer to the question “Which one doesn’t [...]

Overview To help students decide how important a factor was in causing a particular event, ask them to consider whether events would have turned out [...]

The use of Diamond Templates is very effective to help students summarise and prioritise key factors when answering a question. However, they have a lot of [...]

To encourage students to connect factors together in a ‘chain of causation’, consider adopting a ‘Paper People’ approach. This [...]

The “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game can be adapted for the classroom. The example given here is for the History classroom, but it could easily [...]

One of the most important skills for students to develop is the ability to make connections between factors to reach a sustained, sophisticated judgement. [...]

This whole-class game is a great way firstly to summarise issues of cause or effect, and then (most importantly and most challengingly) to link them [...]