Circle Map





Description
The Circle Map is used for brainstorming ideas and showing prior knowledge of a topic, idea or concept. To create a circle map, which is pretty self explanatory, children can place the main topic of interest in the center of the smaller circle and then in the outer larger circle children can place words or phrases that relate directly to the main topic. For example: "Weather" is placed in the center of the diagram to show the topic of interest then in the outer circle words like lightning, temperature, cyclone and forecast. This is a good resource for a teacher also as it can show new learning compared to prior knowledge as formative assessment. This process can be used over and over again to help gain better knowledge of a particular interest.

Links to Classroom Practice
Children can use circle maps to plan a topic that they are working on with the teacher in the class or other peers. A circle map helps orientate the child from the subject and helps come up with different words that may help anyone who wants to know about a particular subject. object. The influences include:  textbook, practice, previous teachers,''
 * ''I gave 6th-8th the example of "Sentence" (inner circle) with the outer circle including:  subject, compounds, predicate, complement, end mark, capitalize, verb, noun, indirect object, adjective, direct


 * "On the first day of school, we did a circle map to list where we have rules in the school and who tells us about the rules. We did this on chart paper as a class.


 * We are using it as an all about me lesson.  They will draw themselves in the center circle.  They will draw things about themselves rectangle."