User:Sangita Kumari1/Cause and effect web

Introduction

Cause and effect web is a graphic organizer for effective visual learning. Student can easily represent multiple reasons for one problem or event by this graphic organizer. Cause and effect web was published in “introduction to quality control book” by Professor Kaoru Ishikawa in 1990.  It is known as Ishikawa diagram or Fishbone diagram because it looks like skeleton of fish. It can be drawn on the plane sheet of paper. Take one plane sheet, draw one box on the left or right side of the sheet. One line draw from the box to other hand of sheet. Box should be like a head of fish and line should look like the bone of fish. Problem should be written inside the box, followed by drawing boxes both the sides of main line and finally all the boxes will be attached with main line. Causes should be written in these side boxes.

Advantage of cause and effect web

·         It helps the student to understand various causes and effects of an event or problem.

·          It also helps to know how one event is related to various causes.

·          It encourages the curiosity of child (student always try to know cause and effect of an event or problem).

·         It encourages the students to use graphic organizer to express their ideas.

·         It motivates the students to analyze the cause and effect of any issue or problem in their surroundings.

·         It motivates the students to think about solution for the problem.

Disadvantage of cause and effect web

· Time consuming. It take time to draw diagram · Sometimes challenging to understand the cause of problem · It is based on opinion not on evidence