How to use the Causes and consequences template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Causes and consequences template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Causes and consequences”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Sort cause cards into columns in pairs, then argue: which single cause mattered most? Draw an arrow from it to its biggest consequence.”
Fill in each part
- Long-term causes Conditions building up over years.
- Short-term causes What made it likely that week?
- The trigger The spark that set it off.
- Short-term consequences What happened in the days and months after?
- Long-term consequences What changed for good?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Causes and consequences board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

History timeline
Put the events of a historical period in order, with what changed at each point and the evidence that tells us so.
Compare and contrast
Compare two things side by side: what belongs only to the first, what they share, what belongs only to the second, and a conclusion.
Lesson plan
Objectives, materials, a timed lesson flow, support and stretch, assessment and reflection.
KWL chart
What students already Know, Want to know, and Learned about a topic.
Concept map
Ideas linked by labelled arrows that say how they relate, around photosynthesis.
Exit ticket (3-2-1)
End-of-lesson check: three things learned, two found interesting, one question, and a confidence stamp.