Plan and reflect
Plan My Drawing
Before you draw: choose your idea, shapes and colors. After you draw: look back and set a goal.
Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
Mind Map a Topic
Put a topic in the middle and branch out with facts, pictures and questions.
- Grades
- 2–6
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- organizing knowledge, visual note-taking, review
What kids do
“Show everything you know about a topic in one map!”
- Branch out with words and tiny drawings
- A question my map made me ask:
How to run it
- Use before a unit to see what kids know, and after to see what they learned.
- Each branch gets a tiny drawing.
- Use colors for different kinds of facts.
Talk about it
- Which branch is biggest?
- Which is emptiest?
- How are two branches connected?
Take it further
Add a new color after the unit.
Pairs well with
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