Designing a mind map for an education project

Hey there,

Here we are again. In my school, we are now involved in an project where our students have to find out about the animal kingdom. We have created a mindmap in order to help us planning our objectives in this project. This mindmap shows the different aspects that we want to carry out in our project.

Students have to investigate about the different groups of the animal kingdom and create a poster explaining one. The will work in groups of three. Afterwards, they have to explain their group to the rest of their partners.

Mind mapping is an exciting educational tool because it promotes learning by helping students capture and organize information, make connections between and among concepts, identify concepts that are missing, and learn by making sense of information, both information they already possess and new information.

The tool that I have used is Creately. In this page, you can design a lot of different charts and diagrams. You only need to select what you eant to create.

In my case, I chose "Mind map". Then, you can use a stencil or design your own Mind map.

I decided not to use a stencil and design mine. On a grid, you can add different types of topics and pictures and conect them with lines and arrows. You can change the type of letter, colours, the type of arrow... everything!!

Here is mine.

Besides I had some problems creating it, it is really easy to use. It has a very intuitive and simple interface. The problem that I found is that it crashes when you upload a lot of photographs. Unless in the free version. However, I insistenly recomend you this tool. I have used mind maps since many years ago and I can ensure you that it is really helpful for students and even for teachers. Students start to schematise in order to study. They see the bullet points of a topic and they clarify their ideas. For teacher is very useful because it permits organises better their work or make students' study easier. In my case, I use mind maps for both situations. To facilitate my students' learning and organise myself better.

Hope you like it! ;)