Graphic+Organizers

Graphic organizers are pictoral or graphical ways to organize information and thoughts for organizing, learning or understanding. Graphic organizers are powerful tools that are used in classrooms everyday around the world to enhance children's learning experiences. Graphic organizers also allow children's minds to discover patterns and relationships between concepts. The most common example of a graphic organizer is the calendar that maps out the days of every month of the year. Some examples of graphic organizers are webs, concept maps, matrices, and flow charts.

By clicking, http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html you can print graphic organizers or make your own to use in the classroom. As a teacher, you can use graphic organizers to show maps of the curriculum for an entire year or an entire unit. This can help student relate one concept to another. Graphic Organizers can also act as study guides for exams by putting the concepts in relational order for students to study with.

There are also many other types of graphic organizers. They can look just like a regular picture. This makes learning for the kids a lot easier and a lot more fun. Many children enjoy using graphic organizers because it helps them understand what is going on within a certain idea because they are able to see everything right in front of them. Here is a website that shows other types of graphic organizers: http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm?gclid=CPjO_4_0t48CFSasGgodSySpdw

Another way to incorporate graphic organizers into the classroom is through the software Kidspiration. The entire focus of this software is helping students create their own graphic organizers in an efficient, easy to understand, and visually pleasing manner. For more information in Kidspiration software, visit their website: http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/kidspiration/index.cfm