METHOD

Mind Mapping

Students organize their ideas, thoughts, concepts, or other elements by drawing branches and sub-branches from a central topic or question.

This method is effective for visualizing complex subjects and helps students see connections, remember information, and develop new perspectives.

1

Students take a piece of paper and write the idea, topic or question they want to mind map in the middle of the paper. They draw a circle around it.

2

They add main branches by drawing lines extending from the central circle. Above or below each main branch, students write headings.

3

Students draw sub-branches from the main branches, where they write ideas, concepts, or other related information.

4

If there are connections between different branches, students draw lines between them.

Didactic tips:

  • Students can optionally use colors, drawings, icons, or other visual elements to distinguish between main branches and sub-branches and to strengthen their visual memory.
  • Consider combining Mind Mapping with Reverse Brainstorming or another idea-generation method.
  • You might ask students to display their mind maps on the class or group Knowledge Wall.
  • Students can return to their mind maps multiple times during a project or unit to add new ideas, concepts, or other useful input they come across.
  • Mind mapping can also be used for active listening, where students take notes while listening to a text being read aloud or when presented with new material in other ways.
  • This method is used, for example, in activity XXX
Tags: Organising, structuring
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MODES OF ORGANISATION:

  • Individual

TOOLS / MATERIALS:

  • A3 paper
  • Writing materials