Explaining Concept Maps

Mind Maps (Concept Maps) are very wonderful to use in the classroom. For this assignment, I used the MindMeister website as my tool for creating a mind map. On this site, you can create a Mind Map, collaborate, and present your map.

As described in Module 6, a concept map has many uses in the classroom:

1.           Concept maps allow instructors to "elicit the student's prior knowledge" and then "identify how students' knowledge has been constructed after the completion of instruction."

2.           Concept mapping also encourages students to "organize knowledge into meaningful related chunks," and, by allowing "free response" by the student, provides authentic insights into "the students' knowledge structure."

 A concept map can be used to evaluate and develop student learning.

For the concept map assignment, I created a mind map explaining forces. Click "here" to view the full interactive Mind Map I created for the Module 6 assignment.