Hexagonal Thinking is a collaborative strategy that helps students visually connect key concepts, evidence, and themes within a DBQ. Each hexagon represents an idea or document, and students arrange them so that touching sides show meaningful relationships, such as cause and effect or similarity. This process promotes critical thinking and academic discussion as students justify each connection. When used with DBQs, Hexagonal Thinking bridges document analysis and essay writing, helping students organize claims, evidence, and reasoning before drafting, ultimately deepening historical understanding and argumentation skills.
