MATERIALS:

Two or three long ropes and a few notes/chalk

Instructions:

The long ropes get placed on the floor like a Venn-diagram and students write notes or write with chalk in the circles. Venn-diagrams are perfect to use when students have to compare something, find similarities and differences. Some ways to use it could be:

• Religious education – Protestants and Catholics
• History – The iron age and The bronze age
• Literature – science fiction and fantasy
• Foreign languages – Native school system and the school system of a foreign country
• Geography – inland climate and coastal climate

Variation:

Three ropes can also be used to compare three elements in a Venn-diagram:

• Social studies – The three political ideologies:
• Liberalism, Socialism and Conservatism
• Home economics – Three different food cultures: e.g. Nordic, Italian and Chinese
• Religious education – Christianity, Mormons end Jehovah’s Witness