A “Living Graph” encourages students not only to select the most important events within a topic, but also to rate them against criteria such as success and failure, strength and weakness and so on.

A Venn diagram is a classic way of getting students to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between three key events, concepts or people. Characteristics shared in common go in the central area; those shared by just two factors go in the area where those two circles overlap; characteristics possessed by just one go…