Engaging Students with Concept Mapping

1. Using concept mapping activities to engage students in their gives students a different variety or way the content or information is presented. When introducing or teaching the content on the central nervous system is a good way to use the concept mapping idea. It can show how the different parts of the system are interrelated, such as the limbic system and the basal nuclei. Another example of this could be to use in weight training when teaching students the different muscle groups and show how they all work together to perform a movement.

2. The concept mapping strategy changes the way the information is presented first off. It also gets away from the traditional lecture notes style, where the notes are written out. Concept mapping can help demonstrate how some subjects are interrelated and connect to each other. The concept mapping method can show links between two things better than traditional notes. Also, the ability to use icons or images to represent some the topics in the content can show a link to the real world or give students an idea how the subject applies to their everyday lives. I plan on using this method quite frequently to give students a visual aid for all those visual learners out there.