Teaching aids
MIND MAPS
Mind maps can be used for a multitude of purposes. This can effectively be used to help, support and develop students’ writing skills.
A mind map is a strategy for making notes on a topic, prior of writing. It is structured strategy, which shows the hierarchical relationship of ideas, as opposed to an unstructured strategy such as brainstorming, in which students produce notes at random on paper.
The advantages of mind maps: Making a mind map should be a spontaneous pre-writing activity. Students start with a topic at the centre and generate the web of ideas from that developing and relating these ideas as their mind makes associations.
How to make a mind map for students:
- Choosing a topic
- Note Making
- Feed back
- Organizing mind map
- Writing
- Continuation
THINKING MAPS
Thinking maps are set of graphic organizer techniques used in primary and secondary education. They are eight diagram types that intended to correspond with eight different fundamental thinking processes. They are supposed to provide a common visual language to information structure, often employed when students take notes. Teachers may apply thinking maps in all content areas and all grade levels. The eight map types are:
- Circle Map- used for defining in context.
- Bubble Map- used for describing with adjectives.
- Flow Map-used for sequencing and ordering events.
- Brace Map- used for identifying part\whole relationships.
- Tree Map- used for classifying or grouping.
- Double Bubble Map- used for comparing and contrasting.
- Multi-Flow Map- used for analyzing causes and effects.
- Bridge Map- used for illustrating analogies.