Description:

• Structure information into major topics and supporting details
• Helps students learn to organize and prioritize info
• Shows how different pieces of information relate to each other
• Has a main idea or core concept at the center, with different categories of information connected to it

Examples:

• Analyzing stories and characterization
  • Who Will Help? - sequencing pictures
  • Chrysanthemum - retelling
  • Angel Child, Dragon Child
  • Stuart Little
  • Hatchet
  • Jane and Charlotte - comparison
  • Tom Sawyer

• Teaching economic, political and cultural policies of a particular ruler
  • Indira Ghandi and Golda Meir
• Identifying the similarities and differences between objects of study
  • Election Campaigns
  • French Revolution
  • Forms of Water
• Project Planning
  • Class Business
  • Plants Web Page Design
• Advance Organizers (from Classroom Instruction That Works, Marzano)
  • Writing Process
  • Tall Tales

Inspiration Skills:

• Working in outline view
  • Adding topics and subtopics
  • Moving topics
  • Hide/show sub topics
  • Adding notes
  • Hiding notes
  • Prefix labels
• Print options (for outline view and diagram view)
• Hyperlinking
• Diagram default
• Adding/Importing Symbols
  • Microsoft Clip Art
  • Sharing Symbol Libraries with other computers (PDF)