3 Complete the diagram

‘Complete the diagram’ is a diagrammatic version of ‘Fill in the missing words’. It uses the same idea of getting students to complete something that is incomplete. You can use an incomplete diagram, chart or table. The same kinds of modifications as above can be made to adjust the level of difficulty for your students to this strategy.

Figure 1 is an example of a diagram on a pea plant cross diagram you could ask your students in small groups to complete when you are teaching about rules for the inheritance of traits.

Figure 1 An example of a pea plant cross diagram