SOLO Hexagons

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In this strategy for generating and connecting ideas, the students work in collaborative groups.

They:

brainstorm everything they know about a given topic (presented as a focus question), such as a text, setting, structure, character, poem, text etc.
record each idea or thought on a separate blank hexagon.
arrange the hexagons by tessellating the hexagons.

The outcome differs according to the SOLO level:

in a multistructural outcome students can justify (talk or annotate) the individual hexagons
in a relational outcome where students can make straight edge connections between simple hexagon sequences and can tessellate the hexagons (making connections) - students can explain why they have linked the ideas together in this way
in an extended abstract outcome students can explore the node where three hexagons share a corner and make a generalisation about the nature of the relationship between the ideas.

Download SOLO Hexagon Template

Examples

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 The outcome differs according to the SOLO level:
-*in a '''multistructural''' outcome students can justify (talk or annotate) the individual hexagons and make straight edge connections between simple hexagon sequences
+*in a '''multistructural''' outcome students can justify (talk or annotate) the individual hexagons
-*in a '''relational''' outcome where students have tessellated the hexagons (making connections) students can explain why they had clustered the ideas together in this way
+*in a '''relational''' outcome where students can make straight edge connections between simple hexagon sequences and can tessellate the hexagons (making connections) - students can explain why they have linked the ideas together in this way
 *in an '''extended abstract''' outcome students can  explore the  node where three hexagons share a corner and make a generalisation about the nature of the relationship between the ideas.