Thursday, November 3, 2011

Graphic Organizers

Sometimes it's easier to organize and expand your ideas when you have a visual tool. Graphic organizers will help you identify, organize, and label your thoughts by putting them into patterns and shapes.?

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1. Expanding an Idea

Grace Fleming

Sometimes you have to start small, with a single idea, and then open your mind to new possibilities. This tool gives you a visual method for expanding on a single idea for research or other assignments.

2. Sequence of Events

Grace Fleming

It can be difficult to figure out a sequence of events until you put pencil to paper.

3. Main Idea and Supporting Ideas

Every project, big or small, will involve a big idea and supporting evidence. This tool helps you separate facts and supporting ideas from your main point.

4. Building Blocks

Grace Fleming

Many concepts and events become clear when we use building blocks to describe how they came to be. From historical events, to laws, and even to nutrition--we can understand many things more readily when we see them as building blocks.

5. The Cycle

Grace Fleming

Life is full of cycles. Weather cycles, life cycles, rock cycles--many natural events can be understood when we see a visual representation of the cyclic process.


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