THINKING

1. Welcome to THINKING ® MAPS Awareness Session

2. Visual Tools Used in combination for depth of thought Based on thought processes Used by all teachers Thinking Maps® Used in all content areas

3. Based on fundamental thinking skills Based on isolated tasks Visual Consistent graphic language for school Inconsistent graphics across classrooms Concrete patterns Often static forms Highly flexible forms Graphic Organizers Thinking Maps Highly successful Easily transferred across disciplines Difficult for transferring across disciplines Student centered for cooperative learning Usually text or teacher centered Useful for teaching and assessment

4. Why Do Thinking Maps Work?

5. See your thinking Brain is very visual Content is wired to the maps Brain wires things together THINKING MAPS WORK Develop automaticity with the maps Brain is a pattern detector Connect thinking process to new material Brain develops automaticity

6. Think about this as you see examples of Thinking Maps… Will they help with instruction? Will they help students learn & remember information? Can they be used for assessment?

7. The Circle Map For defining in context

8. Internet Science kit Circle Map Help plants By Alex and Michel Lives in soil Tube shaped body Enemies are birds slimy earthworms Need moisture 2,700 kind Lay eggs No feet have hair Vibrations Nocturnal Teacher Books

11. While at your desk, you should sit with your spine straight. The Backbone; Spinal Column A pointed, hard growth on a plant, as a thorn The spines of the cactus really hurt me. The hinged back of a book SPINE A pointed, hard growth of an animal; as a porcupine’s quill

12. The Bubble Map For describing things

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17. The Double Bubble Map For comparing & contrasting

18. Mice Step daughter goose Step Daughter Younger Step Daughters Older Mean Step sisters Cinderella Mei Ping and The Silver Shoe Old lady Prince has party Fairy God Mother Lost shoe Magic Goose Feathers Magic Wand Prince Went house to house Married prince Shoe In hut By Marisa

23. The Tree Map For classifying things

24. Tree Map Life Cycle of a Butterfly Caterpillar Chrysalis Butterfly Egg eats changes Lays egg Blue Green sheds skin Two weeks tiny gold 500 By Jewell and Anh

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29. The Brace Map For seeing parts of a whole

30. By Brett Cranium skull Facial bones Back bone torso ribs skeleton Hip bone femur lower body tibia fibula

35. The Flow Map For seeing events insequence

39. Yates Mills Elementary School Raleigh, NC

40. How much energy does it take to… Meanderdown the hall, vault over a car, banter with your best friend for an hour, berate someone at the top of your voice, stalk a turtle, be a spectator at a concert? Least energy Most energy

41. The Multi Flow Map For understanding cause & effect

42. Best Wishes,Ed He write messages for the birds. The ice broke off of the big island. Ed is lost on an ice island. He walked around the island.He was alone. I happened when he was asleep. Talbot be comes his new friend. By Alandrea Multi-Flow Map

43. Take a major event and create a Flow -- Multi-Flow Map to really see the relationships or connections. Agriculture Climate Natural Resources Economic Development

45. Use the MULTI-FLOW as a Pre-reading activity for PREDICTING

47. The Bridge Map For seeing analogies

48. Head Numerator AS Body Fraction Is the top part of... Relating Factor: _________________