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Mind Map Tws

1) The document outlines a 5-step process for creating concept maps: generate, sort, connect, elaborate, and share. 2) Creating concept maps can help students organize their thinking and make their ideas and conceptual understandings more visible. 3) The steps involve generating ideas on a topic, sorting them from most to least important, connecting related ideas and elaborating on concepts to breakdown large ideas.

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Mind Map Tws

1) The document outlines a 5-step process for creating concept maps: generate, sort, connect, elaborate, and share. 2) Creating concept maps can help students organize their thinking and make their ideas and conceptual understandings more visible. 3) The steps involve generating ideas on a topic, sorting them from most to least important, connecting related ideas and elaborating on concepts to breakdown large ideas.

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GENERATE-SORTCONNECTELABORATE:

CONCEPT MAPS
Madison Myers
Making Thinking Visible (pp. 125-131)

PURPOSE

Students have a difficult


time making concept maps
even though concept maps
help organize thinking
patterns and ideas.

By structuring a process to
create concept maps, the
thinking patterns and
conceptual understandings
a person or student holds
can better be revealed.

THE STEPS

1) Set Up: What is a concept map? (A Concept map is a


group of words or concepts that have relationships
between them.)

2) Generate: Words, ideas or aspects associated with


the topic.

3) Sort: Organize ideas based upon importance and


relevancy. The ideas in the center are the most
important.

4) Connect: Draw connections between ideas by literally


drawing lines. Explain why the ideas are connected on
the line.

5) Elaborate: Create subcategories that break down


large concepts of central ideas.

6) Share the thinking: Pair and share. Why did you make

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Generate a list of ideas and initial thoughts that


come to your mind when you think about this
topic or issue.

Sort your ideas according to how central or


tangential they are. Place central ideas near
the center and more tangential ideas toward
the outside of the page.
Connect your ideas by drawing connecting lines
between ideas that have something in
common. Explain and write on the line in a shirt
sentence how the ideas are connected.
Elaborate on any of the ideas or thought you
have written so far by adding new ideas that
expand, extend, or add to your initial ideas.

-Page 125

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