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Hexagons Generator (HTML5 / Word)!

A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample]
You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

Hexagon learning allows students to identify links between factors very effectively. Students categorise and link factors together for deeper understanding of the relationship between factors. I have written a detailed blogpost about hexagon learning here.

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2. Introduction / Instructions for students

HEXAGON ESSAY-PLANNING TOOL. DRAG and DROP these hexagons into categories of your choice. You can color-code hexagons, and can create new hexagons (e.g. as titles for each group) by double-clicking anywhere on the canvas. When you are finished, you can use your work as the basis of an essay plan, presentation or project!

3. Hexagons Text: separate each with a newline

Causes for Union victory in the Civil War

Green = primary sources added at the end into appropriate categories

Consequences of the Black Death

Orange = handwritten hexagons based on video notes

Causes for Stalin's rise to power

Sweets given to each team for identifying factors not outlined in original hexagons

Hexagon Generator - Word

Print off your own worksheet version

Hexagon Generator - HTML5

Use your hexagons directly on the Interactive Whiteboard

World War One Historiography

"Arrange the historians for a dinner party: no arguments allowed!"

Consequences of the Black Death

Great teamwork from Year 7 students

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Using Hexagon Learning for categorisation, linkage and prioritisation

Blank Hexagons: Downloadable Word template

HTML5 Hexagons: The Black Death (from ActiveHistory).

Downloadable Hexagons: World War One Historiography (from ActiveHistory).

HTML5 Hexagons Word Hexagons (.docx) Cancel

Teddy Roosevelt

“Big Stick Diplomacy”

Howard Taft

Use US economic power to maintain stability in Western Hemisphere and increase American influence by reducing risk of European interference.

“Dollar Diplomacy”

Helped negotiate peace in Russo-Japanese War

Panama Canal (orchestrating Panamanian Revolution)

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

1914-1921

Used diplomacy but implied the use of military force.

“Substitute dollars for bullets”

The US took control of central bank of Haiti and refinanced debt

Tour of the Great White Fleet 1907

Banks gave loans to the new regime in Honduras

“Teach countries to elect good men”

Campaigned on keeping the US out of WWI

Loaned $2 billion to Allies and $27 million to Germans

Spanish-American War

Woodrow Wilson

1901-1909

Ludlow Amendment

“Moral Diplomacy”

American Popular opinion in 1914

"Open Door" Policy in China

Annexation of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines

Convince the world to follow US values of democracy and self-determination (by force, if necessary)

1909-1914

Hexagons Generator (HTML5 / Word)!

A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample]
You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

1. Title:

2. Introduction / Instructions for students

3. Hexagons Text: separate each with a newline

Causes for Union victory in the Civil War

Consequences of the Black Death

Causes for Stalin's rise to power

Hexagon Generator - Word

Hexagon Generator - HTML5

World War One Historiography

Consequences of the Black Death

Learn More

US Foreign Policy to 1919
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach

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Hexagons Generator (HTML5 / Word)!

A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample] You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

1. Title:

2. Introduction / Instructions for students

3. Hexagons Text: separate each with a newline

Causes for Union victory in the Civil War

Consequences of the Black Death

Causes for Stalin's rise to power

Hexagon Generator - Word

Hexagon Generator - HTML5

World War One Historiography

Consequences of the Black Death

Learn More

US Foreign Policy to 1919Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach

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A generator to create online 'drag and drop' hexagons [sample]
You can also export your work as a worksheet [sample]

US Foreign Policy to 1919
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach