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Illustration: An Interactive Way to Teach History & Geography
Mindscaping: An Interactive Way to Teach History & Geography Teachers Convention-November 2015
Content Objectives What is Mindscaping?Tools of Mindscaping Introducing Mindscaping in the Classroom Advantages of Mindscaping Key Questions
Objectives By the end of the session participants will be able to:define the term mindscapingidentify and describe the mindscapping toolsanalyze the advantages of mindscaping employ the mindscaping technique in their lessons
Ice-Breaker: Self Portraying On a sheet of paper with coloured markers or crayons draw your portrait/important events or milestones in your life Writing sentences or paragraph is not allowed! (Time: 7min)
What is Mindscaping? The landscape of thoughts, areificationof the domain of imaginary entities, memories, feelings, ideas or any other object in the mind
Systems for using color, images, drawings, cartoons and symbols as well as words and phrases for recording ideas
Tools for Mindscaping Cont
Tools for Mindscaping
Introducing Mindscaping in the Classroom
Video Discussion
Activity 1- Group Work In groups discuss the advantages of using mindscaping in the classrooms both for teachers and students On a flip chart organize your thoughts using one of the organizers mentioned in the handout. (You can create your own organizer) Volunteer group(s) to present
Advantages of Mindscaping
Key Questions ..
Is there research supporting use of graphic organizers/mindscaping?Isnt this harder that it looks?Who benefits from graphic organizers -- arent they for visual learners?Do graphic organizers raise test-scores?
Guiding Principles for Using Graphic Organizers
Activity 2- Think Pair Share In pairs think when can you use the mindscaping technique in a lesson
List the topics and the mindscaping tool(s) you can use to make your lesson interactive
Samples from Notebooks
Activity 3- Micro-Teaching Group Work Choose a lesson from the book (history or geography)
Select mindscaping tool(s) for explaining the lesson and present