WELCOME BACK!

PLEASE CLEAR OFF YOUR TABLE.

Use the cards on your table to “build” a group Tree Map. First line up the names of the maps, then classify the rest of the cards under the correct

category.

USE ALL EIGHT MAPS

YOUR STATE

THE HOLIDAYS

ENTERTAINMENT

SPORTS

MUSIC

MEN OR WOMEN

PROCESSING ACTIVITY

Record your ideas on pages 78-79

You have been

introduced to Thinking

Maps®

You can name the key points defining

Thinking Maps®

You can identify the thought process behind each

Thinking Map and the Frame of Reference

You can draw and define each map

You have a beginning understanding of how to

use the maps in a variety of curriculum areas

You can explain the similarities and differences

between Graphic Organizers and Thinking

Maps®

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Now, let’s take the Self-Assessment Quiz found on page 294.

a. structural analysis, whole to part. components

b. cause and effect, impact, outcomes

c. see relationships, analogies

d. compare and contrast, similarities and

differences, uniqueness

e. define in context, brainstorm

f. sequence, order, steps in a process

g. describe, name the qualities

h. classify or sort, main idea and supporting details

1._____ Circle Map

2._____ Bubble Map

3._____ Double Bubble Map

4._____ Tree Map

5._____ Brace Map

6._____ Flow Map

7._____ Multi-Flow Map

8._____ Bridge Map

Introduction: Self-Assessment #2

A

F

B

C

H

D

G

E

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You have implemented

a plan for teaching Thinking

Maps to your students.

Your students understand the fundamental reasons for using Thinking Maps®.

Your students have begun to understand the purpose for each TM and can recognize

them when applied in content areas.

You can match the cognitive vocabulary that corresponds to each TM.

You have modeled the use of Thinking Maps® in a variety of

curriculum areas.

Your students can draw each of the Thinking Maps®.

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Chapter 2

Page 82

Sample Teaching Schedule

Week 1

Circle Map

Week 2

Bubble Map

Week 3

Double Bubble Map

Week 4

Tree Map

Week 5

Brace Map

Week 6

Flow Map

Week 7

Multi-Flow Map

Week 8

Bridge MapWeek 9

All 8 Maps

Pages 84 - 87

1. When maps are introduced during the first 8 weeks, students should be exposed to each map through teacher modeling, discussion, and shared ideas. Students should not necessarily be expected to construct the maps independently.

2. During the introductory weeks, primary maps should be made using manipulatives and/or, kinesthetically.

3. PreK-1st grade maps can be shared with pictures.

Adaptations for Primary Students

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Elementary Schools

Page 90Middle School (Teams) Teaching the Maps

Grades Pre K- 2: Making Map Murals

Grades 3-5: Making Oral Presentations

Grades 6-8: Writing an Autobiography

Grades 9-12: Writing a Reflective Thinking Essay

Teaching TM’s Using My StoryPage 96

The next few slides show examples of student work illustrating the ideas for My Story.

Pages 97 - 98

Using the Resource Pages

Page 83

The resources provided in this text should only be used when introducing the maps to

students. Student should begin immediately to draw the maps on their own. Even when you use the masters during the initial teaching,

students should be encouraged to go beyond the basic visual.

Pages 100-101

Pair with someone NOT at your table. Complete a Double Bubble Map. Try to

come up with at least 6 similarities.

Page 103-104

Pages 106-107

Pages 109-110

Pages 112-113

Pages 115-116

Pages 118-119

Whole group – If students share with the whole group, they should choose one or two ideas to share, not their entire map.

Groups of 4 – Students can pass their maps and read or take turns presenting their maps to each other. The Cooperative Desk maps are a great resource that facilitates sharing.

Pairs – Students can be “mixed up” in a class to create pairs for sharing. Pairs can read each other’s maps or take turns sharing their own map.

TAKING IT OFF THE MAPPage 94

Page 122

“Text structure provides a conceptual net for keeping

information in mind.”

“Text organization has a profound effect on comprehension and

memory.”

Peregoy and Boyle. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL

Page 123Thinking Maps as Conceptual Nets for Literacy

“Students miss much of the original data (up to 50

percent) when the cognitive strategies were not fully or

partially developed.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

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Life Cycle

A plant’s life cycle describes how long a plant lives or how long it takes to grow, flower, and set seed. Plants can be either an annual, perennial, or biennial.

Annual

A plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season. It will grow, flower, set seed, and die.

Perennial

A plant that lives for 3 or more years. It can grow, flower, and set seed for many years. Underground parts may regrow new stems as in the case of herbaceous plants, or the stems may live for many years like woody plants (trees).

Sequence = Flow Map

Classification = Tree Map

Details for Tree Map or Stages for Flow Map

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Plant Parts - Leaves

Leaves are the food making factories of green plants. Leaves come in many different shapes and sizes. Leaves can be simple, made of a single leaf blade connected by a petiole to the stem (oak, maple), or compound, in which the leaf blade is divided into separate leaflets attached by a petiole to the stem (ash, locust).

Leaves are made to catch light and have openings to allow water and air to come and go. The outer surface of the leaf has a waxy coating called a cuticle which protects the leaf. Veins carry water and nutrients within the leaf.

Leaves are the site of the food making process called photosynthesis. In this process, ….

Photosynthesis is special to green plants! Photosynthesis…

Brace

Tree

Flow

Circle

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“In order to remember, the mind must sort through information and store what is important and discard what is not important.

In order to remember the important parts of text, the mind needs to sort against the structure of the text.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

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BRACE MAP

BUBBLE MAP

FLOW MAP

MULTI-FLOW MAP

DOUBLE BUBBLE MAP

Now You Try

Strategies for Successful Classroom Introduction

1. Essential First Step: Introduce the Thinking Maps to your students over a period of 8-10 weeks. (Chapter 2)

2. Display the posters in the front of your room, either one at a time or all at once depending on your students.

3. Emphasize the thought process of each Thinking Map in your guiding questions. (See Key Words for Thinking, page 77)

5. Encourage students to go beyond the basic format of each map as they construct their thinking in a variety of content areas.

4. Provide a variety of ways for students to share their maps in order to “take the information off the map.” (pages 94-95)

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Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2: TEACHING

Chapter 3: LITERACY LINKS

Chapter 4: CONTENT CONNECTIONS

Chapter 5: INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

Chapter 6: ASSESSMENT

Strategies for Successful Classroom

Implementation Throughout the Year

You will be receiving Follow-up support

throughout the year in Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

High above the hushed crowd, Rex tried to remain focused. Still, he couldn’t shake one nagging thought:

He was an old dog and this was a new trick.