Monday, October 13, 2008

Concept Mapping

Identify and describe 3-5 innovative ideas or ways you could use concept mapping activities in your future classrooms. Discuss how these ideas might impact your approach to teaching.
What impact might the use of Concept mapping software have on student learning within your classroom? Give 2 or 3 specific examples.
Discuss the amount of time it may take to learn this type of application to the point where you would feel comfortable integrating it in your classroom. Do you think it would be worth the time? (you can be honest)

Going along with the map I revised, I could use them for goal setting activites. Whether it was in sports, nutrition or any aspect of the studetn's life that involves health. You can slo use concept maps to break down the material into smaller sections so the students can master the material. You can also use concpet maps in projects. One aspect of health is family history, so they can use these maps to make a family tree that describes genetics and possible inheirted diseases.
Concept mapping can influence your lessons plans and possibly projects that you may assign the students. Concept maps can be used for brainstorming ideas on projects, or assigning certain areas of the project to individual students.
For me, I think using concpet mapping for setting goals in the health and fitness field would be very valuable. I could even use it for when I coach. When tought and time are put into planning for concept mapping in class, I think it can be a very valuable tool to help engage students in the learning process.



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