Resources for Graphic Organizers, Concept Maps, and Mind Maps

We are learning to use graphic organizers in a class I am teaching this semester. I'm sharing with the students (social studies majors) a list of resources for those new to graphic organizers, concept maps, and mind maps. The academic discipline used for most examples in this list is social studies. Another post later in this blog will share resources from additional disciplines.

Teachers and Their PLNs

Inspiration software provides a good introduction to using graphic organizers including concept maps, mind maps, and webs.

http://www.inspiration.com/visual-learning

Visual Thinking and Visual Learning

overview, introduction

This site has links to graphic organizers, concept maps, mind maps, and webs

http://www.inspiration.com/inspiration-socialstudies-examples

graphic organizers, mind maps, concept maps samples

Social Studies Examples for Inspiration Software

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has published a list of resources and of additional tools to use.

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/teachers-guide-on-use-of-graphic.html

graphic organizers and overview list

Teachers Guide on the Use of Graphic Organizers in the Classroom

Ways to Use a SMART Board

Several sites share mind maps, their history, and samples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

mind maps introduction

Mind Map

http://www.mindmappingsite.com/history/history/history-of-mind-mapping

mind maps introduction

History of Mind Mapping

http://www.tonybuzan.com/about/mind-mapping/

mind maps introduction

What is a Mind Map?

http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/tech-for-teachers/24177

mind maps introduction

Mind Mapping: Visualizing Historical Thought

http://www.biggerplate.com/education-mindmaps/34/history

mind maps samples

History Mind Maps

Tools for Teachers

A variety of introductions, resources, and samples are available for concept maps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map

concept maps introduction

Concept Map

http://www.education.com/reference/article/concept-maps/

concept maps introduction

Concept Maps

https://wiki.ubc.ca/Concept_Mapping_Resources

concept maps introduction

Concept Mapping Resources

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/flag/cat/conmap/conmap7.htm

concept maps introduction

Classroom Assessment Techniques Concept Mapping

http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/french-revolution-concept-maps/

concept maps samples

French Revolution Concept Maps

Graphic Organizers Display / Katie Appleton Day / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The term “graphic organizer” is sometimes used to discuss just one type of graphic organizer… and other times it is used to include graphic organizers, mind maps, concept maps, and webs.

http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/50-uses-inspiration-and-kidspiration-software-tools.cfm

graphic organizers introduction, samples, rubrics

50 Uses of Graphic Organizers and Rubric

Teacher-Created Graphic Organizers

Rubric for Graphic Organizers

http://michelleleba.wikispaces.com/file/view/Social+Studies+Graphic+Organizers.pdf

graphic organizers introduction and samples

Social Studies - Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons

https://walch.com/samplepages/050078.pdf

graphic organizers introduction and samples

Content-Area Graphic Organizers - Social Studies

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/standards/support-tools/organizers/social/k12-social.pdf

graphic organizers introduction and samples

Graphic Organizers

http://guamjfk.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/3/7/10376068/social_studies_toolkit_gos.pdf

graphic organizers introduction and samples

Social Science Toolkit of Graphic Organizers

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/

graphic organizers samples

Graphic Organizers

Pinterest Swag / Julochka / CC BY-NC 2.0

Pinterest is by its very nature a visual tool. So it’s a great place to look for other visual tools.

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=graphic%20organizers

graphic organizers resources

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=mind%20maps

mind maps resources

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=concept%20maps

concept maps resources

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=social%20studies

social studies resources

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=history%20education

history resources

Note: The samples used in this post were created by Jo Schiffbauer with Inspiration software that is designed to be used for visual mapping, outlining, writing, and making presentations. The license on the diagrams is CC BY-NC 3.0 (a Creative Commons license).