What is a concept map?
A map to find directions in your neighborhood
A visual way to organize thoughts
The newest iphone location app
What is the first step to creating a concept map?
Deciding where you are going.
Identifying the main topic
Adding new information to your concept map
What are two things that every concept map has?
Connections and relationships
Arrows and circles
The color blue
What idea is the concept map built from?
Most people like to draw.
Information can be shared with cirles, squares, and triangles.
New knowledge can be learned effectively by linking it to what is already known
What should a a concept map should be woven around? The better the focus question, the richer the concept map will be.
A focus question, which is the problem or the issue the concept map seeks to resolve.
Test questions only.
Newspaper articles.
