Module Six - - Decision Grids and Mind Maps
Organizing findings
Grids and mind maps play an important role in helping students to get to the insight stage.
Graphical organizers convert complex and messy information collections into meaningful displays.
They compress.
They focus.
They make interpretation, understanding and insight much easier.
Which poet had the greatest impact on American literature?
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Readership Today |
Influence on Writers |
Impact on Form |
Other? |
| Robert Frost |
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| Emily Dickinson |
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| Langston Hughes |
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Why Graphical Organizers?
Graphical Organizers help keep students plan their research forays.
They guide the gathering.
They focus purpose.
They show what is gained.
They show what is still missing.
Graphical Organizers sometimes act like mind maps.
They point to the destination.
They identify related sites and sights.
 Create a decision matrix like the one above for one of the following decisions or a decision of your choice:
- Which of the following cities has the healthiest life style?
- Which of the following inventors made the biggest contribution to society?
- Which of the following cities has the healthiest life style?
- Which of the following generals treated their men the worst?
- Which of the following writers produced the most lyrical prose?
How could a decision grid and a cluster diagram or mind map work together?
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