{"id":3435,"date":"2015-11-03T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:56:30","slug":"diamond-diagrams-for-prioritisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/downloads\/diamond-diagrams-for-prioritisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Diagrams for Prioritisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong>: Students produce or are given 9 pieces of information which they arrange in order in a diamond diagram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong>: Arrange outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles from most successful to least successful; Arrange medieval jobs from highest status to lowest status; arrange historical figures from most significant to least significant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>: Students could order images instead of text statements &#8211; for example images which\u00a0create a positive impression of a figure \/ period go towards the top. Each factor could be printed off on a separate sheet of A4 paper and then arranged as a group exercise (in the picture above, Year 7 students researched the origins of surnames of people in the class. The ones that corresponded to jobs &#8211; e.g. Baker, Tarr, Butcher &#8211; were then arranged in a Diamond from highest status to lowest status. Different pairs of students came out of class to adjust the diagram until everyone had their input. We then transferred the diagram onto a display board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Downloads<\/strong>:\u00a0I have produced a series of\u00a0editable\/printable Diamond templates that can be downloaded here:<\/p>\n<p>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diamond-9-Template.docx\">Diamond 9 Template<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diamond-16-Template.docx\">Diamond 16 Template<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diamond-25-Diagram.docx\">Diamond 25 Template<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: Students produce or are given 9 pieces of information which they arrange in order in a diamond diagram. Examples: Arrange outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles from most successful to least successful; Arrange medieval jobs from highest status to lowest status; arrange historical figures from most significant to least significant. Taking it further: Students&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/downloads\/diamond-diagrams-for-prioritisation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[195,202,206],"tags":[248,249,316],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Tp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}