Audience Title
- Kids
Time Estimation
- 55 min
Mind maps are a brilliant reflection tool students can use to demonstrate what they have learned in a visually creative manner. It allows them to explore their knowledge, apply critical thinking skills and summarise key concepts on a page. In this easy-to-run activity, students will learn the basic components of a mind map and how to apply this to a topic they have recently finished learning about. Mind maps are also perfect for use as an end-of-year activity or as a creative way to engage students in or after remote learning situations.
Years 3-4 (Middle Year Primary).
This activity can be easily adapted to suit a F-2 class or to go further with Years 5 & 6.
Level 3 and 4 English: Creating Texts
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose. (ACELY1682) and (ACELY1694)
Prepare & print the following resources for your students in advance. Each student needs 1 of each of the A4 resources (3 sheets total).
Gather these items before your session begins for an easy, stress-free lesson.
Begin by focusing on a topic that has been taught over the past few weeks or months. This technique can be especially helpful if you have been in remote learning situations. The use of a mind map can assist the most reluctant learner to share. It is a creative way to help students refocus, revisit and remember information.
Provide each student with a copy of the Mind Map Guidelines, Mind Map Example & Mind Map Template sheets. Walk students through the Guidelines & Example sheets, focusing on how the sample topic ‘Energy’ is mapped out. This will give the students an idea of what mind maps look like. Then, talk about the different parts of the map: