{"id":3567,"date":"2015-04-11T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:08:00","slug":"six-degrees-of-bacon-as-a-revision-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/six-degrees-of-bacon-as-a-revision-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"“Six Degrees of Bacon” as a revision strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game can be adapted for the classroom. The example given here is for the History classroom,\u00a0but it\u00a0could easily be adapted to use with concepts, countries, sports, chemicals and so on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"bacon\"<\/p>\n

Divide the class into two teams. Each team is\u00a0given twenty minutes to write flash cards of twenty characters.<\/p>\n

The cards have\u00a0the name <\/span><\/span>on one side; bullet point facts on the other.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ten random cards from each deck are then\u00a0given to the opposite group.<\/p>\n

The teams then race\u00a0each other to create a chain of connections between the cards. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The first group that finishes wins the game, but only after they have\u00a0verbally explained all of the links.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Taking it further<\/h2>\n

Each group should present their findings as a flowchart with images of the characters in question. This could then be photocopied and shared with the other stud
\n<\/a>ents as a revision aid.<\/p>\n

Credits<\/h2>\n

This\u00a0idea was originally shared by\u00a0Le Sanj Estdansl’arbre in\u00a0the IBDP History Teachers Facebook Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game can be adapted for the classroom. The example given here is for the History classroom,\u00a0but it\u00a0could easily be adapted to use with concepts, countries, sports, chemicals and so on. Divide the class into two teams. Each team is\u00a0given twenty minutes to write flash cards of twenty characters. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[346,345,71,347],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","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=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}