Organize Concepts in a Concept Map

Essential Details

Interaction Type People Time Stakes

★ Learner-to-Learner

✖ Learner-to-Instructor

★ Learner-to-Content

★ Individual

★ With Others

★ Asynchronous

✖ Synchronous

★ Low-Stakes

✖ High-Stakes

 

Description

Students draw a concept or mind map to organize, differentiate, and explain concepts. Concept maps can be charts, graphical organizers, and flowcharts.

Students can identify clearly what they have learned or what they are planning.

Sample Procedure

  1. Select the concept, skill, or topic for concept mapping.
  2. Provide an example.
  3. Provide materials and tutorials. Suggest that they start in the center or top. Then, students break the whole into smaller components and depict these components around the focus. Urge students to represent each idea with limited words.
  4. Ask students to share their work. Conduct a discussion about how they organized a concept.

Example

Canvas Discussion with "Users must post before seeing replies" selected.

Purpose

Organize evidence, causes, and solutions of climate change.

Tasks

  1. Sketch a concept map with the words "climate change" in the center.
  2. Have at least three nodes from the center. Refer to the sample concept map below. Please do not copy the sample concept map.
  3. Add evidence, causes, and solutions, and another category.
  4. After you post your concept map, respond to another comparing and contrast your maps.

Options on How to Make your Concept Map

  • Draw on paper, take a photo, and upload the file. 
  • Or, use PowerPoint, Visio, or another program to draw your map and export it as an image file.

Sample Concept Map

A concept map used to organize concepts (evidence, solutions, causes) around climate change

"Concept Maps" by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill shared with CC 4.0

Bloom's level

The level indicates this activity’s place within Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning (Cognitive Domain). Higher-levels contains lower-levels within it.

Level Action

Sixth

Create

Fifth

Evaluate

★ Fourth

★ Analyze
Third Apply
Second Understand
First Remember

Verb

Organize

Tools

Teaching Goal

Practice New Skills or Concepts

Sources

Concept Maps. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2019, from Learning Center website: https://learningcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/using-concept-maps/

The following book is available at the CETL Library to borrow:

Silberman, M. (1996). Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject (1 edition). Boston: Pearson.