Thinking Maps Ideas 2012

Kit Thinking MapThe Natural World II

Circle Map for each planetBubble Map for each planetDouble bubble Map comparing/contrasting Earth and another planetCircle map for the sunBubble map for the Sun

Living Systems 1 and 2

Brace map with parts of plantsFlow Map with life cycle of plantsCircle map describing living thingsDouble Bubble Map comparing/contrasting plants and animalsBridge Map with relating factor “gets its food by…” using specific plants and animalsBridge map with relating factor “needs this to survive”Brace map with parts of ecosystemTree map with kinds of ecosystems and characteristicsBrace Map with relating factor “is a living thing found in a…” Brace Map with relating factor “is a nonliving thing found in a…”Multi-Flow Map showing what happens when organisms compete for resourcesCircle Map with a living thing in the middle and its habitat needs in the outer circleFlow Map showing food chain (remember arrow shows flow of energy and points to the organism that RECEIVES the energy)Bridge Map showing predator/prey relationshipsBridge Map showing organism/habitat need relationshipMulti-Flow Map showing the cause and effect relationships of changes organisms make when faced by changes in habitatsBrace Map for parts of organisms that help them surviveBridge Map showing adaptations and purpose (relating factor: is needed for survival because…, or needs ____ to surviveTree Map with inherited traits and learned

Thinking Maps Ideas 2012

traits as categories and list your traits that are inherited and learned from your parentsCircle Map with inherited traits of a particular animalCircle Map with inherited traits of a particular plant

Kit Thinking MapThe Natural World II

Flow map of energy of oceanMulti-Flow with cause/effect of ocean energy and landCircle map defining weathering, erosion, depositionDouble Bubble comparing/contrasting weathering and erosion, weathering and deposition, deposition and erosionBrace map with parts of soilBrace map with layers of soilDouble Bubble different soilsBridge map “plants hold soil in place” like “____ hold ____”Bridge map “fossils give us clues about the environment” like ____ gives us clues about ___

Living Systems I and II

Double Bubble comparing/contrasting traits and learned behaviorsBridge Map with relating factor “learns to”Bridge Map with relating factor “inherits traits of”Flow Map with stages of metamorphosisDouble Bubble comparing/contrasting each stage

Circle Map listing animals that growCircle Map listing plants that growBridge map with relating factor “grows from”Tree Map listing survival needs of animalsTree Map listing survival needs of plantsTree Map listing animal and its adaptations for survivalDouble Bubble comparing/contrasting different animals adaptations for survivalBridge Map with relating factor of “is a

Thinking Maps Ideas 2012

survival adaptation of”Kit Thinking MapThe Natural World IIEarth Science)

Tree Map of the water cycle listing solids, liquids, and gases in the cycleBridge Map with relating factor “is important to us because” with examples from the water cycleMulti-Flow with cause/effect relationships of forces on landformsTree Map with forces as major categories and what results from those forcesDouble Bubble to compare/contrast erosion, weatheringDouble Bubble to compare/contrast types of rocks to sedimentary rocksFlow Map to show different processes to make sedimentary rocksCircle Map with characteristics of sedimentary rocksCircle Map for renewable resourcesCircle Map for nonrenewable resourcesCircle Map for inexhaustible resourcesDouble Bubble to compare/contrast renewable and nonrenewable, nonrenewable and inexhaustible, etc.Tree Map with types of resources and examples of eachTree Map with types of energy and examples of uses of eachTree Map with types of natural resources and uses of eachBridge Map with relating factor “is needed for” or “without ____ we _____”Flow Map with formation of fossil fuelsFlow Map with formation of mineralsDouble Bubble comparing/contrasting minerals and rocks

Living Systems I and II

Flow map of the life cycle of a particular plant or animalBridge Map with relating factor of “move by”Bridge Map with of sensory organ and use

Thinking Maps Ideas 2012

(include name of organism with organ)Double Bubble to compare/contrast instructive behaviors and learned behaviorsTree Map of types of tropismCircle Map defining adaptation, niche, habitat, ecosystem, producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivoresTree Map with examples of any of the above termsDouble Bubble comparing/contrasting any of the above related termsCircle Map with organism in the middle and description of its roles in the niche in the outer circleBrace Map with communities, populations, species, parts in a particular ecosystemMake a Tree Map of the traits you have that come from your mother, your fatherTree Map with 2 ways organisms change and example of how humans change