Cause and effect loops

Teach Explanations with cause and effect loops

Here is an instant lesson for literacy that is fun and engaging for students.

You need:

• strips of paper
• staplers or sticky tape
• pens or textas.

This activity helps build students’ thinking skills so they deeply understand an explanation.

Students create loops that show the explanatory thinking. The loops use a conjunction ‘so’ to link
events in a chain so that students understand HOW not just why.

They use conjunctions of cause and effect: SO to link events in a chain. The example here shows how to explain the impact of inflation on businesses for Business Studies. You can use this as a model for explaining anything that has a series of complex interactions.

Inflation increases

SO

consumers have less discretionary income

SO

they cut back on eating out and holiday travel

SO

businesses have fewer customers and revenue declines etc.

Click here to download the PDF showing how to do it.

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