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Mind maps

Mind maps. Connecting tools. What is a mind map. A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Steps to create a mind map Step 1. 1. Choose the central idea, what is your mind Map going to be about.

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Mind maps

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  1. Mind maps • Connecting tools

  2. What is a mind map. • A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.

  3. Steps to create a mind mapStep 1 • 1. Choose the central idea, what is your mind Map going to be about.

  4. Step 2 • 2. Brainstorm ideas about the topic you are going to talk about. • Brainstorm means, you are going to write as many ideas as come to your mind about the topic. • For example, if we were going to brainstorm about "Global warming", what ideas come to your mind?

  5. Step 3 • Read all the ideas you brainstormed about and find the ones you consider as the most important, interesting or relevant for the topic you want to explain.

  6. Step 4 • Use the ideas you highlighted to find categories. • A category is one of a set of classes among which all things might be distributed. • For example: if we were talking about fruits, what categories can you relate them to?

  7. Step 5 • Once you have the categories, put them around the main idea, be sure this categories are totally and fully connected to the centre and in coherence with your objective.

  8. Step 6 • It is very important these categories to contain subcategories ( this means you can classify the rest of the ideas you brainstormed in these categories). • For example if we were talking about the following fruits: strawberry, cherry, blackberry, raspberry. Which would be the category for them?

  9. Step 7 • One you have all the categories around the main or central idea, you just have to classify all the secondary ideas into those categories.

  10. Important tips • When working in a mind map, always have into account the following advices: • 1. Try to define the categories using a few words. • 2. Try to use pictures instead of words when possible. • 3. Use colors to differentiate the categories.

  11. Challenge10minutes • Take the elements of the bag, follow the seven steps and make a mind map that includes all of them, first group to do it correctly will get 10 point bonus!!!!!

  12. Class work • You are going to create a mind map which central topic is you. • Here are some examples of the categories you can use. • Choose at least 5 categories and in each one have at least 3 subcategories. • Desing a draft in your notebook. HOMEWORK: Do it digitally and send a copy to my email adrianagonher@gmail.com

  13. Example:

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