CONCEPT MAP
INTRODUCTION Concept maps are a powerful tool for identifying relationships among ideas you learn in class. Understanding these relationships and depicting them visually can help you learn course material at a much deeper level and retain it better, too.Concept maps are highly personalized and provide an opportunity to organize course material in a way that makes most sense to you. The main point is to end up with a diagram of all of the important ideas from your class, with terms you add that describe how the ideas are connected to each other. (Some students find that adding these “linking terms” is one of the most challenging part of making a concept map- actively deciding how the ideas are related is key to the effectiveness of concept maps, so don’t skip the linking terms.) Concept maps can be helpful learning tools in just about any class: STEM, humanities, social sciences, languages, even the arts! This assignment contains a concept map for Plus One and Plus Two students, ba...