Topic for week of April 23, 2012:
Use of Multi Flow Maps – Flow maps assist students with understanding cause and effect. How have you used a multi flow map to show cause and effect in your teaching this week? What was the main topic/event How did the causes effect the event and what were the effects? Did the student's Frame of Reference help guide the map?
Going a bit further – Divide the class in half and have one half give causes and have the other half give effects to an event.
Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, April 27, 2012.
The cause and effect map was a bit more difficult to implement this week in the Computer Apps classroom, but I used it to help answer a Journal Prompt. The Journal Prompt asked the students the directions that columns and rows shifted when inserting a column or row in an Excel worksheet. Students seem to be having a difficult time visualizing this concept so I used the cause and effect map to show how the columns shifted when inserting and deleting, and then used a new map to show how the rows shifted when inserting and deleting.
ReplyDeleteIn digital imagining class, the multi-flow map can be used to better understand the use of the eraser tool and how the tolerance effects the eraser tool. Students can effect what is being erased based on the level of tolerance they used.
ReplyDeleteIn Digital Imaging I, we used a multi-flow map to also discuss the cause and effects of using the tolerance setting on the paint bucket and magic eraser tools. We then discussed how we can use this map to set up a cause and effect essay in other classes.
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