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Hello, and welcome to Teachings and Education Graphic Organizers, a teaching strategy organized knowledge and ideas using semantics and symbols. So let's first consider why educators should use graphic organizers.
Graphic organizers are research-based and have been effectively used for years in education. Graphic organizers can be used in almost any grade level, in any subject as well. Students get bombarded with information each lesson, and unfortunately, they often can't make connections between the information. Graphic organizers help students make connections between ideas and information. These organizers can also be used as a tool for students to study and review information. With graphic organizers, the information is concise and broken down into a visual format. Teachers can use graphic organizers as classroom assignments as well—get the kids working actively.
We can now take a look at some different types of graphic organizers. The first type is a comparison graphic organizer. The most famous and common example is the Venn diagram; it's two overlapping circles with similarities placed in the overlapping section.
The next type is a concept map. Several examples include spider webs, mind map, webbing. You have a central idea with supporting ideas branching off.
The next type is a descriptive organizer. A T-chart is probably the most familiar example; it has been used to describe attributes of various living things, but also used as a comparison using pros and cons.
The fourth example is a sequence graphic organizer. Sequence graphic organizers have to do with timing. A great example of a sequence organizer is a chain of events organizer.
Right now, I walk you through an in-field example of a cause-and-effect graphic organizer, which is most frequently used in the social studies course. Here is the outline of what the organizers should look like: it has three circles, three arrows, and three boxes. The circles are the causes; the boxes are the effects. We'll use, for example, the Revolutionary War. You have British troops placed in Boston streets, that leads to the Boston Massacre and the murder of Crispus Attucks. Next was the Stamp Act, enforcing taxes on the colonies, that led to the rebels terrorizing tax collectors. And lastly, Thomas Paine writes the book called Common Sense, which helps spark and galvanize the revolution.
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