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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

1918

1919

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1929

Hindenburg and Ludendorff inform the Kaiser that the war was lost

Locarno Treaty signed by Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Italy (key is the renunciation by Germany, France and Belgium of war in the future)

Stresemann dies

Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates

Paul von Hindenburg is elected President

Friedrich Ebert becomes Chancellor

The Young Plan (reduction of Germany's reparation figure) announced

Ebert-Groener Pact signed

Armistice ends WW1

Spartacist uprising; defeated by the Freikorps

Elections held for the new parliament. Ebert becomes the first President.

Germany joins the League of Nations

Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles. The allied blockade of Germany lifts.

Kapp Putsch

President Ebert dies.

Matthias Erzberger ('November criminal') murdered

Germany starts to default on delivery of coal as part of reparation payment to France

French/Belgian occupation of the Ruhr

The German economy is experiencing hyperinflation

Wall Street crash

Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor

Stresemann government falls

French troops start to withdraw from the Ruhr

The Dawes Plan announced

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

Timeline of what we have looked at so far...
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

Timeline of what we have looked at so far...Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach

About

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

Timeline of what we have looked at so far...
Instructions | More on the Hexagons Approach