Mastering Concept Mapping for Senior Seminar Success
Explore the power of concept mapping in senior seminars, understand what concept maps are, why they are valuable, and how to create and utilize them effectively for organizing ideas, brainstorming, and enhancing collaboration. Dive into practical tips and tools to create meaningful concept maps for your senior thesis project.
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Concept Mapping Senior Seminar
What is a concept map? What is a concept map? Diagram of relationships between ideas
What is a concept map? What is a concept map? Diagram of relationships between ideas Why do we use concept maps? Why do we use concept maps? Organize ideas Visually illustrate complex systems Brainstorm Identify gaps in knowledge Reveals assumptions in thought process or research plan Collaboration
Concept Mapping for the Senior Thesis: Concept Mapping for the Senior Thesis: Learning more about your project structure by making explicit mental connections and association patterns Sharing your concept map provides practice for presenting complex material to others (e.g., a general audience) Can be modified to reflect evolving problem solving How do we do this? How do we do this?
Making a Concept Map Making a Concept Map 1. List the key concepts with relevant terms/need to know details i. Who, what, where, why, when, how, how much ii. Processes iii. Drivers iv. Relationships cause and effect, etc. v. Characteristics 2. Group closely related concepts 3. Connect the concepts by drawing lines with verbs or short phrases to describe the relationship 4. Don t just make a map. Make connections and ideas. 5. Check Yourself: Does this map make sense? 6. Free concept mapping tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept- _and_mind-mapping_software
Numbered list of concepts with numbers for importance
Introduction Mehmel 2017
Methods Liu 2017
Methods http://keaysclass.blogspot.com/2014/10/coggl e-it-ap-stat-designing-study-41.html
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What next? Make your Map! What next? Make your Map! On your own Map your whole project, the Introduction or the Methods Use the template or make your own In small group discussions Describe your concept map Think about why you created your concept map the way that you did Why those concepts? Why those connections?
