Organise ideas· Cause and effect
Fishbone
A fishbone sorts the causes of one outcome into kinds, along the bones of a fish whose head is the outcome.
The real slide Chalk makes, in the Classroom look. Every word is written for your lesson when you use it.
How to run it
- Name the outcome at the head, then the kinds of cause on the bones.
- Pupils add causes to the right bone from a source or a text.
- Ask which bone mattered most, and why.
Why it works
Sorting causes by kind is the step before weighing them. The fishbone is Kaoru Ishikawa's.
In other subjects
Science: why the investigation went wrongGeography: why a city floods
Use in Slides
Chalk plans a deck with this task in it, written for your lesson.