Venn diagram

This strategy will help students to:

  • represent information and thinking in a graphic organiser 

  • determine similarities and differences between concepts or ideas.


  1. A Venn diagram is a graphic organiser that can be used to group and separate concepts and ideas.

  2. After receiving or collecting information about objects or ideas, ask students how things are the same and how are they different. 

  3. Students list the similarities in the overlapping parts of the circles and the differences in the areas that do not overlap. 

  4. This information can then be used by students to help make generalisations about an object or decision about an idea.


Example: emotional, social and physical changes during puberty