Learning Technique: Hotspots

• History
• Humanities
• +3
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)
• Primary Education
• Higher Education (degree)
• Higher Education (non-degree)

Introduction

Use the mindmap and drag and drop the answers from the students to each corner. Are these discoveries important and/or correct?

Instructions

Ask your students to fill the mindmap, with answers applicable to your question. You, or another student, can then begin to drag the answers around and match them to the hotspots on the board, using them as an axis to organise them in a way that visually stimulates your students to absorb the information, or prompt them to ask questions and debate the results. 

Hotspots - Is my answer important/correct?

Learning Technique

Mention a discovery made in the 1900s

Important

Incorrect

Uninportant

Correct

Aardappeloproer

1917

Enkele Amsterdamse vrouwen zagen dat er een schip vol aardappelen in een van de grachten lag. Ze gingen erop af en plunderden het schip: hun schorten vol aardappelen. De dag erna waren er meer plunderaars. Pas nadat zes mensen door het leger werden doodgeschoten, keerde de rust terug