{"id":4408,"date":"2015-11-29T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:39:52","slug":"connecting-factors-with-paper-people-display-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/connecting-factors-with-paper-people-display-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Factors with &#8216;Paper People&#8217; display projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage students to connect factors together in a &#8216;chain of causation&#8217;, consider adopting a &#8216;Paper People&#8217; approach. This involves getting the students to take each individual (or personify each factor &#8211; e.g. Nazi Propaganda could be personified as Goebbels) and connect them together as a chain of people.<\/p>\n<p>The completed diagrams not only form the basis of a nice classroom display, but can also be used for essay planning: each link explained across the arms forms the &#8216;topic sentence&#8217; of each paragraph and the &#8216;body&#8217; of the paragraph is the &#8216;body&#8217; of the person!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the\u00a0instructions I gave to my Year 9 historians after completing their &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/balloon-debates\/\">Balloon Debate<\/a>&#8216; considering &#8216;Who was the most significant figure of the 19th Century?&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ensure that your\u00a0completed &#8220;Paper People&#8221; project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highlights at least FIVE key individuals within different categories we settled upon in our last lesson<\/li>\n<li>Includes an image of each key character (e.g. the \u2018face\u2019 of each paper person)<\/li>\n<li>Includes the name of each key character (e.g. across the \u2018shoulders\u2019 of the paper person)<\/li>\n<li>Includes detail about the achievements of these key individuals (e.g. in the \u2018body\u2019 area of a \u2018paper person)<\/li>\n<li>Includes two key words to sum up the qualities of each person (e.g. in the \u2018legs\u2019 area)<\/li>\n<li>Establishes connections between these people (e.g. on the \u2018arms\u2019 area linking the paper people together)<\/li>\n<li>Merits \u00a0will be awarded as appropriate to the work containing the most detail, the clearest links, and the most attractive presentation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4975 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-124-576x1024.\" alt=\"100_1379\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-124-576x1024. 576w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-124-169x300. 169w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-124 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Taking it further<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Paper People&#8221; projects make a particularly good &#8216;hang from the ceiling&#8217; classroom display:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-123-169x300.\" alt=\"100_1388\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-123-169x300. 169w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-123-576x1024. 576w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-123 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage students to connect factors together in a &#8216;chain of causation&#8217;, consider adopting a &#8216;Paper People&#8217; approach. This involves getting the students to take each individual (or personify each factor &#8211; e.g. Nazi Propaganda could be personified as Goebbels) and connect them together as a chain of people. 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