Logo Visual Thinking (LVT) is a technique that helps students make sense of complex information and enhance their thinking skills. It involves 5 stages: 1) Focus on a guiding question, 2) Gather information from memory or sources, 3) Organize information into groups and themes, 4) Understand by making meaning and seeing ideas as a whole, 5) Apply knowledge to create a product like an essay. An example is provided where students analyze evidence for and against whether the Weimar Republic had a chance of survival by 1929. They organize the evidence, share their understanding, and plan an essay. LVT can be used to explore new topics, make sense of information, and develop ideas.

1. Logo Visual Thinking

2. Logo Visual Thinking
What are the benefits for students
• To help make sense of complex information
• To help enhance their thinking capacity
• To aid their articulation and communication of
ideas
• To enable groups to learn through interaction

3. What does LVT involve?
Stage Description Core question
1. Focus Set a guiding question, selected
from a topic area
What are we going to
think about?
2. Gather Collect areas from memory,
association, imagination or
prompts
What do we know
about it?
3. Organise Sort into groups, clusters or
themes
What sense can we
make of it?
4. Understand Make meaning- see the ideas
as a unity
What does it all add up
to?
5. Apply Work towards a product, e.g.
an essay or story, a play or
poster etc.
What can we make of
it?

4. Focus ‘By 1929 the Weimar Republic had a good
chance of survival’. How far do you agree with this
statement? (30 marks)
To what extent was
there an economic
recovery?
Did Stresemann
achieve his aims
through his foreign
policy?
Was there political
stability?
Was this a
culturally rich
period?

5. Gather
On the blue hexagons write down any evidence that
the Weimar had a good chance of survival
On the pink hexagons write down any evidence that
the Weimar had little chance of survival
One piece of evidence per hexagon

6. Organise
• As a group you have now got to organise your
evidence
• Think about how you group it and also how you will
makes links between it
• By the end you should have all cards stuck down
and they should be in a clear and logical order

7. Understand
• You are going to share you organised cards with the
group

8. Apply
Write a plan to the essay question
‘By 1929 the Weimar Republic had a good chance of
survival’. How far do you agree with this statement?
(30 marks)

9. When can it be used?
• At the start of a topic when you want to see
students prior knowledge/ understanding
• At the end of a topic when you are trying help
students make sense of information
• When you are trying to encourage students to
come up with ideas/ solve a problem