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Graphic Organizers
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What are Graphic Organizers?
They are graphic representations of text which
enable students to better understand which ideas
are important and how those ideas relate to each
other.
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Why Graphic Organizers?

• An instructional tool used to
• Illustrate a student or classes prior knowledge
  about a topic or section of text
• Describe a central idea Ex thing, process,
  concept or proposition
• Describe stages of something
• Timelines for showing historical events
• Show similarities and differences, problems or
  solutions, cause and effect
• Hierarchy
• Interactions
• Series of events

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Instructional Uses

• Identify and remember key facts and ideas
• Assess students prior knowledge on a topic
• Introduce or rearrange text information into
  spatial format
• Summarize chapters or text
• Study guides
• Inter-relationships among events or ideas
• Organize research process
• Grading/ evaluative tools
• Alternative test formats

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Methods for Creating Graphic Organizers

• Inspiration software
• Powerpoint
• Word
• Paper/pencil
• From web

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What is Inspiration?

• You think and learn visually - 66 of our
  students are not auditory learners
• Inspiration provides you with the tools that let
  you create a picture of your ideas or concepts in
  the form of a diagram
• It also provides an integrated outlining
  environment for you to develop your ideas into
  organized written documents
• Therefore, learning and thinking become active
  rather than passive!

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Types of Concept Maps Used in Graphic Organizers

• Cycles
• Spider Maps
• Organizational Web/ Tree
• Chain of events/ Flowchart
• Matrix (KWL, thinking grid, compare and contrast)
• Venn Diagram
• Fishbone
• Continuum

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CYCLESThis graphic organizer is used to show how
a series of events interact to produce a set of
results again and again.

• This organizer asks questions like
• What are the critical events in the cycle?
• How are they related?
• In what ways are they self-reinforcing?

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Carbon Dioxide Cycle
CO2
PLANTS
RESPIRATION
COWS
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Spider Maps This graphic organizer can be used to
describe - a thing - a process - a
concept - a proposition
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TreesGraphic organizers that help students see
organization in text and interconnections.
Webbing, Clustering, Mapping Graphic Organizer
used to show causal relationships and/or
branching.
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Series or ChainsAre used to describe the stages
of something, the steps in a linear procedure,
or a sequence of events.

• The student using this organizer might ask
• What is the object?
• What are the stages?
• How do they lead to one another?
• What is the final outcome?

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Compare/Contrast Matrices Used to show
similarities and differences between two
things.

• User examines
• What things are being compared
• What they have in common
• What differences they exhibit

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Venn Diagrams

• Made up of two or more overlapping circles
• Used in mathematics to show relationships of sets
• Useful for examining similarities and differences
  in characters, stories, poems, etc. in language
  arts
• Used as a prewriting activity to help students
  organize thoughts or textual quotations for an
  essay
• This type of activity enables students to
  visually organize similarities and differences

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Venn Diagram
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Fishbones Graphic organizer that can be used to
show the causal interaction of a complex event or
phenomenon by organizing what factors caused x,
how they interrelate, and examine the factors
that cause x to persist.
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Continuum Scales

• The central idea is what is being scaled
• Simple effective way to show
• Historical events
• Degrees
• Shades of meaning
• Rating scales

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1000 A.D.
Joan of Arc
PEOPLE OF THE MILLENIUM
Columbus
Martin Luther
JFK
Lincoln
2000 A.D.
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Project

• 1. Surf websites of graphic organizers and pick
  three useful examples to print out and share.
• 2. Create a graphic in Inspiration to take home
  and use in your classroom.