Would you mind Mind Maps?
Apr 4th, 2008 by marialobo
Nope, this isn’t some colorful starfish from an exotic nature study =). Neither it is a drawing of an image in broken kaleidoscope. It is a Latin Constellation mind map Vibrant Bea has made when trying to make Latin exercises a more colorful and livelier deal. And it works! One of the fun things we have discovered and probably our best find when we went book-hunting at the Colombo Annual Book Fair last year. It is called Mind Maps for Kids (Rev up for Revision) by Tony Buzan.
This book introduces Mind Mapping as a great tool for learning, primarily, for revision. A Mind Map is a diagram used to help the 2 hemispheres of the brain remember, think, plan, organize and sort information. It is a diagram which makes use of color and pictures while retaining information from previously learned subject matter. Revision for that matter, is the most common use for it. In our homeschool where creativity oozes in some parts, we realized that we can use it in dozens of ways. It makes scheduling, organizing the desks, oral narration, outlining, creative writing, field trip planning, nature study, journalling, unit studies, lapbook designing, story telling, … and so on, fun with a different twist.
It is a very handy tool for a learning family… I highly recommend it.