Our class, 5Pollock have been making mind maps about early humans. If you don’t know what a mind map is, we will tell you. A mind map is a way of organizing topics and sub-topics together. We used mind maps to help us combine all parts of information from our research.Our resource for this topic is a site called www.becominghuman.org.
This website had four main topics. They were called Evidence, Anatomy, Culture, and Lineages. We wrote on our mind maps the four main topics mentioned. Our sub-topics were found in every documentary and articles located in the site written above.
We had a choice to make two types of mind maps; one was made on the computer using Inspiration and another was by hand. In this process we had to illustrate to help us visualize the subject we were learning. We got some pictures by drawing and off the computer. Mind maps are also useful for studying; the way the mind map is made is a fun way of learning. Mind maps can be fun because when you draw the topic branches you can be creative and draw the branch as the thing you are drawing the branch about!
Just recently we have finished a survey asking if the students thought that the mind maps were useful for their studying. Most people thought mind maps were just right for organizing our ‘Early Human’ research. You try it too!
By: Yeo-Jin, Brinda, Soraya
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