Thinking Maps®

      Thinking Maps are eight visual-verbal learning tools, each based on a fundamental thinking process and used together as a set of tools for      the Thinking Maps promotes student-centered and cooperative learning, concept development, reflective thinking, creativity, clarity of communication, and continuous cognitive development.

Circle Map - (with frame of reference) for defining context.

Tree Map - for classifying/grouping.

Bubble Map -       for describing       with adjectives      Flow Map -       for sequencing       and ordering.

Double Bubble Map -   for comparing and   contrasting   Multi-Flow Map -   for analyzing causes   and effects.

Brace Map - for identifying part/whole relationships

Bridge Map - for seeing analogies.

For more information,  you can visit the Thinking Maps^® website.                                      Kent Homepage