{"id":3452,"date":"2015-04-15T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T09:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:54:20","slug":"living-graph-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/cause\/living-graph-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;Living Graph&#8221; encourages students not only to select the most important events within a topic, but also to rate them (over time) against criteria such as success and failure, strength and weakness, significance and insignificance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 1: Brainstorm<\/strong>:\u00a0Ask students, working individually or in pairs \/ small groups, to identify what they consider to be the 10 most significant events within the topic of study. For example, in a History class students could select the 10 most important events in a particular period; in English literature they could select the most important plot developments in a novel or play.\u00a0The teacher asks students to contribute their ideas to a whole-class discussion. This will encourage some debate, discussion and reflection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 2: Depiction:<\/strong>\u00a0Students then open the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/education-games-php\/livingGraph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ClassTools Living Graph\u00a0Template<\/a> and plot their chosen events into it. They should aim not simply to describe &#8220;what happens&#8221; but &#8220;why it is significant&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 3: Categorisation<\/strong>:\u00a0Finally, the students have to drag and drop the events high or low on the graph to indicate something of relevance: success or failure, for example. Safety or Danger could be another idea.<\/p>\n<p>Taking it further:<\/p>\n<p>Students could use pipe cleaners instead of\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/education-games-php\/livingGraph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ClassTools\u00a0Living Graph\u00a0Template<\/a>, as per the pictured example by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LesleyMunro4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LesleyMunro4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students could write an overall observation about change over time, as per this example by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MrThorntonTeach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MrThorntonTeach<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3160\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B9J0__zIIAAUAyG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3160\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B9J0__zIIAAUAyG-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"via @MrThorntonTeach - Y7 Impact of the Black Death change\/time continuum\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via @MrThorntonTeach &#8211; Y7 Impact of the Black Death change\/time continuum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;Living Graph&#8221; encourages students not only to select the most important events within a topic, but also to rate them (over time) against criteria such as success and failure, strength and weakness, significance and insignificance. 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