Cause & Effect Cluster

This strategy helps students recognize cause and effect relationships. This strategy may be used to look at one item as a cause. It can also be used to show one item as an effect.

v Step 1:

Students create two circles on their papers.

v Step 2:

Students fill in one circle with a cause and one circle with an effect.

v Step 3:

For the cause circle, the arrows representing the effects point outward (graphic #1). Students write the effects of the concept or event in the circle on the arrows.

v Step 4:

For the effect circle, the arrows representing the causes point inward

(graphic #2). Students write the causes leading to the particular effect on

the arrows.

v Tip:

A cause is the reason that something happens. An effect is the result, or what happens because of the cause.

Cause - Why? Because…

Effect - What happens?