#5 Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers are used to actively engage students in the learning process.  It is a visual tool that helps students to comprehend what they are learning.  It is a tool to help guide a teachers' lecture and be an activity or study guide for a student on a particular topic, subject, book the student is reading.  There are a lot of free graphic organizers online that you can find for every content subject.  And there are programs you can use to make up your own graphic organizer like Inspiration 9 that a lot of students used for this class assignment. 

I used the program Inspriation 9 to create my graphic organizer.  I loved the program.  I thought it was really easy to used.  The hardest thing for me was picking a topic that I really liked.  And one I chose a topic, the next question was, how am I going to break it down.  I love history so I had a hard time picking a topic that I wanted to do since I like everything History.  So I finally thought that the topic I would do my graphic organizer on was the Civil War.  And then I got into thinking, how much do students know about the Civil War?  How many older people know what events led up to the Civil War for the Civil War to start?  But I kept in mind that there is so much information on that era that I thought it could be broken up into two parts so students didn't feel so overwhelmed.  So, I created a graphic organizer called "Events Leading Up To the Civil War, Part 1."  With creating a second graphic organizer that starts off with were Part 1 leaves off and leading up to the start the Civil War.  I had fun with this assignment.