A strategy for encouraging students to create new and deeper connections between ideas, concepts, and vocabulary
Hexagonal Thinking
Smart Starts
What Is It?
Digital Templates
How Does It Work?
Content Examples
Print Templates
Tips for Success
How Does It Work
🛠️ Create a deck of hexagon cards with various vocabulary, names, concepts, pictures, etc. ⚙️ Students arrange hexagons to represent connections 🗣️ Students share their reasoning for arranging tiles in the way that they did
Tips for Classroom Success
Smart Start the strategy before using it with academic content! Consider challenging your students to make connections between non-academic concepts using Hexagonal Thinking before adding academic concepts to it.
Have students work together at the beginning of a lesson to make connections, and then challenge students to create new connections individually at the end of the lesson.
Use Hexagonal Thinking to create connections between prior knowledge and new concepts by mixing old and new vocabulary together at the start of a unit.
Hirst Easy-Cut Print Template
HookED Print Template
📃 Create your list of terms and concepts ⬇️ Download the hexagon tiles in Word 📝 Edit the hexagons as needed (Change the font, add pictures, etc.)
📃 Customize the Canva Template with your terms ⬇️ Download the Canva project as a PDF ✂️ To speed up prep, cut along the dotted lines first.
Digital Templates
Google Slides 1
Canva
Hexagonal Thinking works great digitally too! Consider using Canva, Google Slides, or Google Draw to create the hexagons and assign them through Google Classroom for students to complete digitally.
Google Slides 2
Google Drawings
Visual Template Canva
Hexagonal Thinking
Hexagonal Thinking is a strategy that challenge students to create and explain connections between vocabulary, ideas, and concepts.
Click Here to Read More About Hexagonal Thinking
Photo from Betsy Potash, Cult of Peagogy: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/hexagonal-thinking/
A Halloween Themed Smart Start (Google Slides)
Smart Starts
A Pop-Culture Themed Smart Start (Canva)
Layering academic vocabulary and concepts on top of a new instructional strategy can create too much cognitive load for students. Consider using this strategy with non-academic words and pictures first. It can serve as an engaging ice-breaker activity for students and also help them learn the strategy before you add new learning to it.
A Food Themed Smart Start (Google Drawings)
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A strategy for encouraging students to create new and deeper connections between ideas, concepts, and vocabulary
Hexagonal Thinking
Smart Starts
What Is It?
Digital Templates
How Does It Work?
Content Examples
Print Templates
Tips for Success
How Does It Work
🛠️ Create a deck of hexagon cards with various vocabulary, names, concepts, pictures, etc. ⚙️ Students arrange hexagons to represent connections 🗣️ Students share their reasoning for arranging tiles in the way that they did
Tips for Classroom Success
Smart Start the strategy before using it with academic content! Consider challenging your students to make connections between non-academic concepts using Hexagonal Thinking before adding academic concepts to it.
Have students work together at the beginning of a lesson to make connections, and then challenge students to create new connections individually at the end of the lesson.
Use Hexagonal Thinking to create connections between prior knowledge and new concepts by mixing old and new vocabulary together at the start of a unit.
Hirst Easy-Cut Print Template
HookED Print Template
📃 Create your list of terms and concepts ⬇️ Download the hexagon tiles in Word 📝 Edit the hexagons as needed (Change the font, add pictures, etc.)
📃 Customize the Canva Template with your terms ⬇️ Download the Canva project as a PDF ✂️ To speed up prep, cut along the dotted lines first.
Digital Templates
Google Slides 1
Canva
Hexagonal Thinking works great digitally too! Consider using Canva, Google Slides, or Google Draw to create the hexagons and assign them through Google Classroom for students to complete digitally.
Google Slides 2
Google Drawings
Visual Template Canva
Hexagonal Thinking
Hexagonal Thinking is a strategy that challenge students to create and explain connections between vocabulary, ideas, and concepts.
Click Here to Read More About Hexagonal Thinking
Photo from Betsy Potash, Cult of Peagogy: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/hexagonal-thinking/
A Halloween Themed Smart Start (Google Slides)
Smart Starts
A Pop-Culture Themed Smart Start (Canva)
Layering academic vocabulary and concepts on top of a new instructional strategy can create too much cognitive load for students. Consider using this strategy with non-academic words and pictures first. It can serve as an engaging ice-breaker activity for students and also help them learn the strategy before you add new learning to it.
A Food Themed Smart Start (Google Drawings)
Social Studies
Math
Science
ELAR
8th Grade Science - Conservation of Mass
Algebra I - Writing Linear Equations
English I - Analyzing and Responding to Literary Texts
8th Grade Social Studies - Early Republic