Rizalina G.Gomez, Ph.D.by

1. A Spider map

Sample Semantic web:Sample Semantic web:

Sample Semantic web:Sample Semantic web:

A Spider map (sometimes called a semantic map) is a type of graphic organizer that is used to investigate and enumerate various aspects of a single theme or topic, helping the student to organize their thoughts.

Used to describe a central idea: a thing (a geographic region), process (meiosis), concept (altruism), or proposition with support (experimental drugs should be available to AIDS victims). Key frame questions: What is the central idea? What are its attributes? What are its functions?

2. Series of Events Chain

Used to describe the stages of something (the life cycle of a primate); the steps in a linear procedure (how to neutralize an acid); a sequence of events (how feudalism led to the formation of nation states)the goals, actions, and outcomes of a historical figure or character in a novel (the rise and fall of Napoleon). Key frame questions: What is the object, procedure, or initiating event? What are the stages or steps? How do they lead to one another? What is the final outcome?

Series of Events Chain…

Series of Events Chain…

Key frame questions: What is the object, procedure, or initiating event? What are the stages or steps? How do they lead to one another? What is the final outcome?

3. Continuum Scale

Used for time lines showing historical events or ages (grade levels in school), degrees of something (weight), shades of meaning (Likert scales), ratings scales (achievement in school). Key frame questions: What is being scaled? What are the end points?

Used to show similarities and differences between two things (people, places, events, ideas, etc.). Key frame question: What things are being compared? How are they similar? How are they different?

4. Compare/Contrast Matrix

  Attributes Name 1 Name 2

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Attribute 3    

5. Problem/Solution Outline

Used to represent a problem, attempted solutions, and results (the national debt). Key frame questions: What was the problem? Who had the problem? Why was it a problem? What attempts were made to solve the problem? Did those attempts succeed?

Problem/Solution Outline…

Used to show causal information (causes of poverty),a hierarchy (types of insects) branching procedures (the circulatory system).Key frame questions: What is the superordinate category? What are the subordinate categories? How are they related? How many levels are there?

6. Network Tree

7. Human Interaction Outline

Used to show the nature of an interaction between persons or groups (Europeans settlers and American Indians). Key frame questions: Who are the persons or groups? What were their goals? Did they conflict or cooperate? What was the outcome for each person or group?

Human Interaction Outline…

Used to show the causal interaction of a complex event (an election, a nuclear explosion) complex phenomenon (juvenile delinquency, learning disabilities). Key frame questions: What are the factors that cause X ? How do they interrelate? Are the factors that cause X the same as those that cause X to persist?

8. Fishbone Map

Fishbone Map…

Used to show how a series of events interact to produce a set of results again and again (weather phenomena, cycles of achievement and failure, the life cycle). Key frame questions: What are the critical events in the cycle? How are they related? In what ways are they self-reinforcing?

9. Cycle

10. Star diagrams

A type of graphic organizer that condense and organize data about multiple traits, fact, or attributes associated a single topic. Star diagrams are useful for basic brainstorming about a topic or simply listing all the major traits related to a theme.

A story star, a star diagram used to describe the key points of a story or event, noting the 5 W's: who, when, where, what, and why.

Star diagrams…

Star diagrams…

A star diagram can be used to create a graphic display describing all you know about dinosaurs (when they lived, what kinds there were, how big they were, what they ate, where fossils have been found, etc.) or a graphic display of methods that help your study skills (like taking notes, reading, doing homework, memorizing, etc.).

11. Venn Diagram

The Venn Diagram is made up of two or more overlapping circles. It is often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets. In language arts instruction, Venn Diagrams are useful for examining similarities and differences in characters, stories, poems, etc.

It is frequently used as a prewriting activity to enable students to organize thoughts or textual quotations prior to writing a compare/contrast essay. This activity enables students to organize similarities and differences visually .

Venn Diagram…

12. Tree Diagrams

Tree Diagrams…