Concept Mapping

Concept Mapping is a tool to help illustrate the relationships between thoughts and/or ideas. Concepts Mapping helps students to make connections and recognize how ideas relate to each other. Concept Maps help to visually organize students' thinking. Concept Maps can take the form of various graphic organizers that are either teacher developed or obtained from a bank of pre-established graphic organizers.

Learning Accommodations

• Concept Maps are powerful instructional tools for all students, but especially for students with special needs. Concept Maps provide an alternative form in which to view information. Providing students with a Concept Map prior to a lecture is one way to help organize a students thinking and comprehension.
• Some students may need a specific Concept Map format to be provided. The structured format may help the student begin to see the organizational structure.

Technology Connections

• Inspiration Software is a commercially produced software package that allows the user to generate original Concept Maps or select from a resource of templates.

View A Sample Concept Map on Native Americans

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