Cause and Effect

What is it?
It is an attempt to understand why things happen. Many professions spend countless hours trying to understand the cause and effect of human and natural behavior. 
Why is it important?
A goal of education is to create empowered, analytic thinkers, capable of thinking through complex processes to make important decisions. Students are affected by cause and effect relationships everyday. 
How can you make it happen?

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  • Always ask why. Why did the fish in the classroom aquarium die? Why were slaves more important in the South than in the North? Why do people continue to commit crimes after being released from prison? What are the causes and effects of bullying in schools?
  • After students answer the Why questions, ask them, "How do you know? What is your evidence?" Have students find research or texts to justify their position.
  • Encourage students to consider multiple causes of events. Make lists of possible causes of events, and then try to determine which are more likely, or important, than others.
  • Encourage students to consider multiple consequences. How did World War II change life in America? What happens when we waste electricity? What are some of the likely consequences of global warming? What consequences does the behavior of a character in a story have on the lives of other characters?
  • Use graphic organizers, such as cause-and-effect chains, flow charts, and feedback loops, to help students think about complex cause-and-effect relationships.
  • Help students develop the vocabulary of cause and effect. Teach power words such as consequence, consequently, influence, and as a result. Also teach qualifiers such as partly responsible for and largely because of. Encourage students to qualify cause-and-effect statements with words such as possibly, probably, or almost certainly. Explain that whenever there is doubt (as there often is in matters of cause and effect), qualifying words actually strengthen an argument. Compare the following sentences, and ask students to consider which statement is easier to agree with

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