concept mapping: you are great at learning from formal instruction your senior thesis is different...
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Concept Mapping:
• You are great at learning from formal instruction• Your senior thesis is different – Evolving problem solving– Pulling together many concepts, often from
disparate fields– Presentations to peers, professors, mentors, the
research community• How do you organize your thoughts and express
them?
Concept Mapping, steps1. List the key conceptsWrite the most important ideas related to each concept on a Postit -- Include relevant terms and details in the list
– Who, what, where, why, when, how, how much– Processes– Drivers– Relationships – cause and effect, etc.– Characteristics
2. Number the concepts in order of importance3. Group closely related concepts4. Connect the concepts by drawing lines. Add verbs, verb phrases or
prepositions to describe how the concepts are related.5. Don’t just make a map. Make connections and ideas. 6. Review the concept map
– Check for accuracy -- fix errors , delete any redundancies, add missing concepts– Rearrange the concepts and relationships as needed– Add emphasis to key concepts and relationships: size, color, pictures
Concepts
• Arsenic• Health• Groundwater• Poisoning• Tubewells• Surface water• People• Fe oxides
• Organic carbon• Sources• Peat lenses• Latrines• Irrigation• Deposition
Concepts-numbered
• Arsenic-1• Health-2• Groundwater-5• Poisoning-3• Tubewells-6• Surface water-14• People-4• Fe oxides-9
• Organic carbon-7• Sources-8• Peat lenses-10• Latrines-11• Irrigation-12• Deposition-13
Concepts-grouped
• Arsenic-1• Health-2• Poisoning-3• People-4
• Groundwater-5• Tubewells-6
• Fe oxides-9• Organic carbon-7
• Sources-8• Peat lenses-10• Latrines-11• Irrigation-12• Deposition-13
• Surface water-14
Arsenic
Health
Groundwater
Tubewells
People
Fe oxides
Organic carbon
Peat lenses
Latrines
Irrigation Sediment deposition
Surface watersassociated with
release
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use
degrades
food for
control
use forms
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pollute
microbes
control
Free Concept Mapping Tools Online
• Cmap– http://cmap.ihmc.us/
• Edraw– http://www.edrawsoft.com/
• Concise learning– www.conciselearning.com– http://www.conciselearning.com/mindmapping.html– The most popular free mind mapping programs are XMind
(desktop), FreeMind (web-based), Mind42 (web-based), WisdoMap (web-based), Wisemapping (web-based), Bubbl.us (web-based),and IHMC CmapTools (concept mapping). They offer robust feature menus, are easy to use, and are compatible with other mapping programs.
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