Hi PVES! We made it! Another week down! Thank you for all your hard work and patience with our school year and our construction journey!
I thought it might be fun to share a tech tool with you all! I stumbled across Mind Meister this week and thought your kiddos would love how engaging it is.
It helps students visualize their thinking through mapping.
Mapping is a a brain based approach to teaching and learning designed to build foundational, critical thinking, problem solving, comprehension and communication skills necessary for academic success.
Did you know that when you give your students a map or a graphic organizer it activates METACOGNITION?
This approach can be super beneficial for our Tier 2 and Tier 3 kiddos! It allows them to organize their thinking in a visual way. I am seeing this used in reading, writing and in math!
What is MIND Mapping?
For our younger grades, teachers could create them as a class to model thinking during discussion time. You could also print out the maps for your students to add to.
Check it out below!
- I love that they have pre-made templates!
- You can even add links & notes for students to visit.
- You can share the maps and students can work in partner groups.
There are lots of ways to customize your Mind Maps!
This blogpost walks you through more information about Mind Maps and how they can be helpful to your students.
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