SOLO Hexagons

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

1. brainstorm everything they know about a given topic (presented as a focus question), such as a text, setting, structure, character, poem, text etc.
2. record each idea or thought on a separate blank hexagon.
3. 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.

HookED SOLO Hexagon Generator

Add content to hexagons using the online generator

Download Blank SOLO Hexagon Templates

File:HookED SOLO Hexagons Template Primary Y012.pdf

File:HookED SOLO Hexagons Template Secondary.pdf

Download Sample SOLO Hexagon Templates

File:HookED Hexagons Energy.pdf

Purchase and download a SOLO Hexagon Poster from the HookED store

Also refer McNeill and Hook 2012 SOLO Taxonomy and Making Meaning Bk3 Extended texts and thematic studies p8

(Based on an idea from AM Hodgson. (1992). Hexagons for systems thinking.European Journal of Systems Dynamics 59 (1): 220-30.)

Examples

SOLO I'm Riding SOLO - Chris Harte

Hexagon Heaven Week - Lisa Jane Ashes

Hexagonal learning - David Didau

Hexagons - Teach it better

- Manyana Education

SOLO Hexagons for Topic Revision- Emma Rawlings Smith

Triptico goes SOLO - Alex Bellars

SOLO Hexagons - I never realised how much I knew Sir - Ed Mosley

SOLO Taxonomy - The Hexagon Challenge - Tait Coles

- Going SOLO with Charles1 - Kerry Turner

SOLO Hexagons Spanish in Grosvenor

Hexagon Templates - SOLO activities - The Geophyte

Looking beyonnd a lesson in SOLO - David Fawcett

Can SOLO and hexagons help students improve their grades - Data Fiend

Using SOLO mark schemes and hexagons to target A* unit 1 exam responses - What we done at school today Blog

Why hexagons are better than square - Chris Harte

My first PE SOLO experiments Wilmslow High School

Going SOLO Learning Matters - Jen Leach

First attempt at using SOLO Taxonomy - The Geography Room

SOLO Hexagons - Adam Cooke

Hexagonal Learning - Julia at Stages of Succession

Hexagonal Learning 2.0 - Kristian Still

Hexagonal Learning - Engage The Minds