{"id":3214,"date":"2015-02-09T18:27:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:09:31","slug":"causation-diagram-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/causation-diagram-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks, branches and logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following image\u00a0comes from an old textbook, and illustrates the respective importance of long, mid and short-term factors in causing World War One.\u00a0I created a &#8216;blanked out&#8217; version which I provide to students at the end of a topic and ask them to decide what factors they would place in the various spots in the image. This can work for any subject relating to causation: for example, &#8220;What caused the Russian Revolution?&#8221; \/ &#8220;Why did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?&#8221; \/ &#8220;What caused the European Reformation?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-CausesBLANK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-Causes-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"WWI-Causes\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-Causes-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-Causes-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-Causes.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-CausesBLANK-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"WWI-CausesBLANK\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-CausesBLANK-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-CausesBLANK-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WWI-CausesBLANK.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Downloads:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/causation.docx\">download the causation diagram<\/a>\u00a0as a worksheet to use with your classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following image\u00a0comes from an old textbook, and illustrates the respective importance of long, mid and short-term factors in causing World War One.\u00a0I created a &#8216;blanked out&#8217; version which I provide to students at the end of a topic and ask them to decide what factors they would place in the various spots in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460],"tags":[200,201,66],"class_list":["bg-responsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}