Add your own hexagons to encourage classroom discussion.
Ask your learners to identify relations and connections between the hexagons – moving the hexagons around and encouraging explanations.
Encourage your learners to categorise and link items together – these could be key facts or information points, choices to organise, and include links to related factors.
The most effective use of this tool is to order items, identifying relations and connections, then using this for further in-depth work.
Examples
Geography: "I provide learners with hexagons linked to the topic – such as earthquakes and volcanoes. We use the tool to explain the importance of each hexagon, how it links to others. This encourages discussion that we then use
to build an effective essay response."
Design Technology: "I use hexagons to build critical thinking – encouraging students to collaborate to make connections, and then be able to explain their thinking."
Science: "We use the hexagon tool to encourage relations and connections, clustering hexagons together, discussing connections, justifying the choices."