Instructional Strategy: Concept Mapping (Mind Mapping)
Blooms Levels= 1, 2, 3, 4 (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis)
Categorize learning (helps student group content based on certain characteristics)
Classify objects, events, or ideas (allows student to form deeper level of
comprehension; beyond surface level recognition)
Explore ideas by making connections See relationships between items of information
- Develop and refine ability to recall and discriminate among key ideas to see commonalties and identify relationships
- Students form their own understanding of the concepts and the connections they identify
- Cause & Effect
- Compare items of information
- Collecting data
- Sequence items of information
- Students are active participants in their own learning
- Develop new and expanded meanings as information is organized and manipulated
