concept mapping software

Concept Mapping can be very helpful and useful. Teachers can use concept mapping in many different ways. One could use these ideas in many different subjects within the classroom. For example, a teacher could use a concept map in a science lesson about animals. The students could classify the animals under different categories, such as mammals and reptiles. Concept mapping could also be used in a math lesson. When explaining subtraction to younger children you can use manipulatives. You can show these manipulative in a concept map by shading areas and taking away areas. This will help demonstrate subtraction in a concept map. Of course teachers could also use concept mapping in literature or reading. This would be easy because children could make spider web-like concept maps about a character, scene, setting, etc. This is probably the most common way teachers use concept mapping.
Concept mapping is very useful within the classroom because it can give information to children in a different way. Concept mapping is normally presented in a visual manner, which can help those students who are more visually oriented. Concept mapping is also very colorful which helps keeps young children’s attention. Children normally are attracted to colorful objects. Having them create their own concept map that is colorful will allow them to keep interest and be more willing to fill out the concept map.
I do not think its going to take long to learn this application. It is fairly simple and easily organized. The directions are also very easy and clearly stated. I would feel very comfortable itegrating this into my classroom after I learn the application, which as I stated will not take me very long. It would definitely be worth my time to learn this application and use it in my classroom. This application will be very useful to students, especially those who learn visually.