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Using Hexagons to Build Critical Thinking Skills

This simple, flexible activity gets students collaborating to make connections between key themes—in any unit you are teaching.

October 22, 2021

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Developed by curriculum designer Betsy Potash, hexagonal thinking is an activity designed to get kids thinking critically, making novel connections, debating, and providing evidence to support their reasoning—by visually connecting a series of ideas written on paper or digital hexagons around a theme. Potash offers a video tutorial on making a template and a free downloadable digital tool kit for this collaborative classroom activity. Learn more in the Edutopia article “Using ‘Hexagonal Thinking’ to Deepen Classroom Conversations.”

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