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The ability to select, prioritise, categorise and link evidence is a valuable skill that students learn in History. It is also highly transferable to other subjects.<\/p>\nThe ability to select, prioritise, categorise and link evidence is a valuable skill that students learn in History. It is also highly transferable to other subjects.<\/p>\n
Using hexagons is a simple and effective way of developing these skills, as this case study<\/a><\/strong>, which comes complete with all the necessary resources, seeks to demonstrate.<\/p>\n The ‘Hexagon Approach’ worked very well. It steered students away from a narrative approach and into an analytical frame of mind. It helped them frame categories of analyis, build up their command of the material step-by-step. It provided them with the opporunity to easily change their initial assumptions, connect factors together both within and between categories, and give them a very effective basis of an accomplished written piece.<\/p>\n It is also a very simple approach that can be transferred to other topics and other curriculum subjects. All that is needed is an initial list of factors – contributed either by the teacher or the students – which can then be written into a\u00a0blank hexagons template<\/a>\u00a0or turned into hexagons automatically using the\u00a0Classtools.net Hexagons Generator<\/a>. Thereafter, all that is needed is a pair of scissors, some sugar paper and a glue stick. And, ideally, a bag of sweets!<\/p>\n