Topic for week of March
26, 2012:
Use of Tree Map – Tree Maps help classify and sort
details about a topic. How have you used a Tree Map to help students
detail and categories specific details of a topic? Remember to
incorporate the Frame of Reference to help students understand where they
learned the information they are detailing.
Going a bit further –
Give students a list of words or a group of objects and have them classify the
same information in two or three different ways. Students should then
explain why they have classified the information to the way they have and make
a judgement about which way they think is best.
Please post your blog
response to this topic by Friday, March 30, 2012.
We used a tree map in AP Biology to review topics/concepts about plants. The "branches" were plant anatomy, plant reproduction, plant development, and plant transport. The students have a unit test on Friday, so this was a good way to review the entire unit.
ReplyDeleteWe used a tree map in CP Chemistry review types ofchemical bonding. The first branches were ionic and covalent. Then we branched off into ions ( positive and negative) and molecules (polar and non-polar) and examples of each. This is a good way to review the material andkeep the differences between the two types of bonds in perspective.
ReplyDeleteWe used a tree map in Honors Biology to review the main principles of natural selection during out evolution unit. The "branches" were variation, overproduction, adaptation, and descent with modification.
ReplyDeleteUsed in chm honors to review the gas laws....Charles', Dalton's, Gay-Lussacs, Ideal,...etc.
ReplyDeleteSo I forgot to post before spring break...can't imagine why :). Anyways we used a tree map to distinguish between potential and kinetic energy. Students classified each with the definition and examples.
ReplyDeleteI did a Tree Map with my students to look at the differences between AC and DC power. Students put meaning, definition, and examples.
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