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 | موضوع: Mind Maps for Children in Any Grade  الخميس ديسمبر 13, 2012 10:54 am | |
| Mind Maps are an easy and fun classroom activity. A web is a great learning tool for students from kindergarten to high school. Helps kids memorize and organize!
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Follow us: @suite101 on Twitter | Suite101 on FacebookMind Maps have been around since the 1960s and are the invention of Tony Buzan. On his web page, Mr. Buzan states that the graphic nature of the Mind Map will "unlock the potential of the brain". Making a colorful diagram will help students brainstorm new ideas, organize those thoughts and be able to recall the information more easily in the future.
Mind Mapping With Kids – Start Web Drawings in Kindergarten
Children as young as kindergarten can be taught to Mind Map. Young children don't need to be burdened with the label Mind Map; they won't understand it. Simply introduce a new fun activity. Allow creativity through drawing and don't stress about neatness. The object of the first few Mind Maps is the free flow of ideas and learning a life long skill.
Instructions on How to Draw a Mind Map
Place a drawing or picture of a main topic in the middle of a blank sheet of paper that is landscape style (wider than it is tall). If the topic is cities, the child can draw or glue a picture of a city in the centre of the page taking up roughly 3 inches or 8 cm.
Make branches coming away from the centre topic. Start with four and use a different color for each branch.
Make smaller branches coming from the large branches. The color of the small tributaries will be the same as their main branch.
Brainstorm main ideas around the topic. Draw or put keywords above the branches. A child might write or draw representations of people, buildings, vehicles and businesses around the topic of cities.
Think of smaller sub-topics that relate to the branch keywords. An example of smaller topics around the sub-topic vehicles might be buses, fire trucks, cars and trains. Add the drawings and words to the Mind Map. Then all together in one diagram the facts or ideas about cities are presented.
Continue until all the ideas are represented on the Mind Map. A grade 4 Mind Map of the Winter Olympics could end up with many branches or ideas stemming from the main idea.
Uses of Mind Maps in School
Many classroom teachers already use Mind Maps with their students as an activity for brainstorming. However, it is also a great individual task for making a outline for a project or essay, studying for a quiz, reviewing a classroom unit or generating ideas. Finally, learning to make a Mind Map can be a lesson plan all on its own in order to teach this useful skill for future use.
Benefits of Mind Maps for Students
Since Mind Maps combine pictures and words, they are excellent activities for all students. Special needs students who are non-writers can do Mind Maps along side a gifted student. Mind Maps increase creativity and the flow of new ideas. Children will learn to organize information and learn about planning. Recalling and presenting information to others will be an easier task with the diagrams.
Mind Mapping is a task that can be easily taught to children of any age and ability. It involves drawing a spider diagram around one main topic using drawings, colors and short word phrases. Through Mind Mapping children generate more thoughts, organize their thoughts and are later, better able to recall information.
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