“Man can noteven think withoutmental images”mental images”

-Aristotle

“If I can’t Ican’t

picture it,I can’tI can’t

understandit.”

Teaching kids tothink in picturesand words can

increase

Imaging to Improve Comprehension

increase

comprehensionand improve

memory.

Mind Mapping is one strategy that helps Kids to do this

Imaging to Improve Comprehension

Requires us to

• Train kids to visualizehow to see the“mental movies intheir minds”

• Create leaningexperiences thatchallenge students to-show and tell-visualize andtheir minds”

• Teach kids to talkabout the images theysee in their mind’seye.

visualize andverbalize- what theyare learning so thatwe teach them how tolearn rather than testwithout teaching.

When readerscreate

scenarios andpictures in their

minds whilereading, theirreading, their

level ofengagementincreases.Stephanie Harvey, Strategies That Work

Mind Mapping Can help Kids to Workouttheir brain and grow some dendrites!

• When we think inwords

• When we think inpictures

The Left Side of theBrain Lights UP

The Right Side of theBrain Lights UP

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• Overturning decadesof dogma, scientistsrecently discoveredthat even into our

• It is not so much whatthe individualhemispheres of thebrain do, but how thetwo sides of the brain

Brain Science is constantly Growing

seventies, our brainscontinue producingnew neurons

two sides of the braincomplement andcombine that makes adifference for studentlearning.

Learning Changes The Brain

Plasticity is theability of the brainto change and“fine-tune” itself in“fine-tune” itself inresponse to thedemands of theenvironment.

What Is Mind Mapping?

• A systematicway of puttingideas onpaper usingpictures andwords.

Why UseMind

Mapping?

What are the GuidingPrinciples to help mePrinciples to help me

mind map?

How Do We UseMind Mapping as aTool for Teaching?Tool for Teaching?

Tools to supportvisualizing/mind mapping in the classroom

• Provide time to practice visualizing.• Teach how to visualize (structure words).• Integrate skill into homework and class

assignments.assignments.• Have students create group maps.• Use mapping as recall tool to begin class.• Teacher models how to create pictures in your

mind’s eye.• Change classroom language from “what was the

main idea?, or what happened next?” to “whatdid you see?” or “what did you picture?”