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Topic for week of April 30, 2012:

Use of Bridge Maps – Bridge maps assist students with understanding relationships and analogies.  How have you used a bridge map to show relationships or analogies in your teaching this week?  What was the first pair and the second pair?  What was the relating factor?  Did the relating factor assist students with the understanding of the pairs?  Did the student's Frame of Reference help guide the map?

Going a bit further – Give analogies to students in a variety of ways: give them a pair of words and ask for the relating factor; give a relating factor and ask for a pair of words that fits the relationship; give students the top of one relationship and the bottom of the other pair and ask them to try to complete the bridge map.

Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, May 4, 2012.

Multi Flow Map

Topic for week of April 23, 2012:

Use of Multi Flow Maps – Flow maps assist students with understanding cause and effect.  How have you used a multi flow map to show cause and effect in your teaching this week?  What was the main topic/event  How did the causes effect the event and what were the effects?  Did the student's Frame of Reference help guide the map?

Going a bit further – Divide the class in half and have one half give causes and have the other half give effects to an event.

Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, April 27, 2012.

Flow Maps

Hi!
This week we will be posting about Flow Maps! Flow Maps are great for showing sequencing and chronology.  Maybe they could be used to show the steps to a geometry proof?  Maybe they could be used to shows the steps in solving an equation?  I look forward to seeing your posts!
Happy HSAP week!
Shannon

Brace Maps

Topic for week of April 9, 2012:

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break!  Now back to the grind... Our topic this week will be Brace Maps– Brace maps help to show the part of a whole.  How have you utilized a brace map in your classroom this week?  What was your Whole Object?  How many "subparts" were your students able to describe?  How many breakdowns were your students able to break down the Whole Object – more than 2?  Remember to utilize The Frame of Reference to help understand how your students are coming to their conclusions.

Going a bit further – Give your students the subparts to see if they can figure out the Whole or Main Object.  Also, you can take a Tree Map to give specific information about each subpart of the Main Object.

Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, April 13, 2012.

Happy blogging :)

Tree Maps

This weeks topic is Tree Maps.
Tree maps are great tools for discussing specifics and details.  Students can use them to categorize information and organize details.
Happy blogging!

Double Bubble Maps

Hello Math Department!
This week we will be blogging about Double Bubble Maps.  Double Bubble Maps are used to compare and contrast two ideas/themes.  In Double Bubble Maps students can use more than just adjectives to describe ideas, they can now use any word of phrase in the maps. I am curious to see how you adapt this to a math lesson. Y'all did a wonderful job using the bubble maps. I have been very impressed with y'alls thinking maps thus far.
Happy Blogging!
Shannon

Bubble Maps

Topic for week of March 12, 2012:

Use of Bubble Maps – Bubble Maps allow students to describe (using adjectives only) a topic that is placed in the middle circle.  What topic did you place in the middle circle and what words or phrases did your students use to describe that topic?  Was their frame of reference accurate or did you have to guide their frame of reference?  Did your students have a higher or lower knowledge of the topic than you expected?

Going a bit further – After the students have provided many adjectives to describe your topic, have the class come to a consensus of the two best adjectives.  

Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, March 16, 2012.