![]() ![]() As well as writing the cards for the flow chart itself, participants can develop literacy skills by writing sentences relating to the flow chart, for example focusing on problems and solutions. The charts are ideal to support writing practice but not very suitable for the initial teaching of basic literacy. At some point the group will have to decide to end the exercise, stepping back to review the overall picture and discuss where action or intervention might be most effective.įlow charts usually require a considerable amount of writing and so are usually more appropriate for groups which have good literacy skills. ![]() Each time a new card is laid, attempts are made to link it to any others that are already there and gradually concentrations of cards are likely to occur around certain key cards. Encourage the participants to consider the effects of each effect (and if relevant the causes of each cause) so that the flow chart starts to expand.Threads of different colours can be used to make links with different meanings between cards. It is essential to use moveable cards, as flow charts can get very complex with new connections identified during the process, leading to radical restructuring. These might be of different colours to capture different categories or types of event. Participants can then start to identify the causes and effects of this phenomenon, making a card for each suggestion using words or symbols and placing it in relation to the central theme.To begin constructing a flow chart, place a card representing the central theme in the middle of a large, empty area.Flow charts can be used to analyse issues such as conflict, deforestation, drought, girls' education and road building. They are particularly helpful to identify negative cycles and actions which can break them. To help make sense of different processes or complex systems - to explore cause, effect and inter-connections.įlow charts can be used to explore the relationships between events - following the process as each event causes another event to occur and so on. ![]()
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