Summary
This strategy helps students demonstrate content knowledge by creating an illustration using words, pictures, and symbols.
Essential Question(s)
Procedure
Provide students with a blank piece of copy paper and various colored pencils or markers.
Instruct students to write and circle the main idea of the content in the center of the page.
Next, have students branch out from the center of the page with more ideas that elaborate on the main idea.
Students should use a variety of colors and a combination of words, pictures, and symbols to describe the content.
Have students connect related ideas with arrows and lines. They may elaborate on the connections they make with more words, pictures, or symbols.
Alternatively, students can use a website like Google Drawings to create a digital Mind Map.
