{"id":3684,"date":"2016-01-14T17:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2015-12-09T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:48:21","slug":"why-did-the-roman-empire-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/why-did-the-roman-empire-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did the Roman Empire Fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr7\/Roman_Empire\/5_Decline\/1_Hexagons.docx\">Why did the Roman Empire Fall?<\/a><br \/>\nIn this exercise, created using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/solo-hexagons\/\">ClassTools Hexagons Generator<\/a>, pairs of students are given a sheet of factors explaining the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. They cut these out and then organise them into meaningful categories, each with a title which makes it clear how they contributed to the fall of the Empire. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/using-hexagon-learning-for-categorisation-linkage-and-prioritisation\/\">detailed blogpost about the hexagons approach<\/a>. In a second lesson, students can connect the groups with arrows and explanations and then turn their findings into a proper written piece to develop their essay-writing skills.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_7\/Romans\/2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the Roman Empire Fall? In this exercise, created using the ClassTools Hexagons Generator, pairs of students are given a sheet of factors explaining the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. They cut these out and then organise them into meaningful categories, each with a title which makes it clear how they&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/why-did-the-roman-empire-fall\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[402,403,382],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Xq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}