GraphicOrganizers


 * F**Graphic Organizers: Go online and look for some sites that post graphic organizers for teachers to use. Once you find a graphic organizer you really like, type the following in a word document.

a) Name of the website, b) the URL, and c) a brief description of how you'd use the graphic organizer in your own content area (apply it to a specific lesson, don't talk about it in general terms.)
Then here at the top of this page, click on the edit button, and copy and paste your answer next to your roll call #, then hit save! You're done.

Note: To make the link, just copy and paste the whole URL (including the http://) and hit enter afterwards. When you save it, check the page, it should automatically become an active link! Easy huh?

1.// A. ClassTools.net B. http://classtools.net/main_area/template_loader.php?burger C. This organizer would be useful for beginning writers to help them plan their story or essay out. It was also cool because you can type right on the burger and then print it out. This would incorporate technology into your classroom

//2.// A)teAchnology B)http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/ C) A concept web could be useful in a science classroom to show examples of all kinds of causes and effects or extensions such as the food chain.

//3. A)// http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/storymap/ A story map graphic organizer would be helpful when introducing a book to students to break down the parts of a story including the characters, setting, climax and falling action.

//4. A. Fable II B.//http://www.paperfoldables.com/ C. I would use to website to introduce foldables to students at various grade levels. I find foldables not only useful but fun, and I think that first students must see the usefulness of foldables before they can truely appreciate there value. Thereafter, I would use paper foldables in helping students to understand fractions.

//5.// A. Enchanted Learning B. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/chain/ C. The 7- link chain organizer would be great for a student doing animal classifications for a science class. I would have my students label each box starting from the top with kingdom and ending with species. Next, as we talked about humans, the students could fill in the information starting with Animalia and ending with Homo sapiens. This graphic organizer gives a great visual as we go from a broader classification to smaller one. In addition, the boxes could run on an angle to show the descending order of the human taxonomy.

//6. A. Graphic Organizers Links http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/graphicorganizers/ C. A Character Analysis Pyramid would be very useful when teaching Literature. If I was teaching my sixth graders "Number the Stars," I could divide them into groups and they could complete these pyramids together about their assigned character. The Pyramid could also be used in a Social Studies class. If my eighth grade class was studying the American Revolution, they could each select a Founding Father to profile. While the category "physical appearance" is not necessary for understanding of historical events, it might help students view historical figures as real people. Knowing that George Washington actually had hair is a fun trivia fact that might help them remember other facts about him, and also help students keep all the old guys in white wigs straight!

7.A. Worksheets Work.com// //B. http://www.worksheetworks.com/miscellanea/graphic-organizers/tchart.html //// C. This is a page describing what a T-chart is and its different uses. I would use this for any grade level for vocabulary or spelling words. You can write the words on the left side and the definitions, descriptions, or examples on the right side. This is a real simple way for students to have the words on one sheet of paper and in their own words the definitions, descriptions, or examples on the right side. This would also be a great tool for the students to use to study with. They could just fold on the line down the middle and practice with someone or by themselves the vocabulary words. It can be a great tool for students to study spelling also with someone else. //

//8.// A. Catawba County Schools B. http://www.catawba.k12.nc.us/C_i_resources/Foldables.htm C. I would use the Shutter Foldables on this website to help students learn about different U.S. Presidents. I would assign the students a president and then have the students create a foldable about that president. They would write the name of the president on the front of the Foldable. Then on the inside the students would write down when the person was president, what political party they were in, who their vicepresident was and then why or why not that president was good for the country. The students would then share their foldables with each other and hopefully this would allow students a way to study the presidents. Hopefully this would also make it easier for the students to learn who all the presidents were instead of just memorizing a name.

//9.// A) //Transforming Teaching Through Technology// B) http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html C) Here is a page that lists a wide variety of graphic organizers. Each graphic organizer file can be viewed in PDF and printed, or the file can be downloaded and edited in Inspiration (another website). In Inspiration, the graphic organizer downloaded can be personalized to fit your exact lesson plan. From the list of graphic organizers, I will have my students (3rd, 4th, or 5th graders) use the listing pattern to name the branches of the U.S. Government. After learning about the structure of the U.S. Government through textbooks and websites, I will ask students to construct a listing pattern to show how the U.S. Government is divided. They will begin by writing United States Federal Government in the main heading. Then there are three lines that branch off of the main heading and create a circle or rectangular shape at the end of each line. In each of these cirlces/rectangles they will list one of the three branches of governement (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial). Under the shape listing the Legislative branch another line will branch off of it and at the end of that there will be another shape for students to write Congress in. Below Congress, two lines will branch from it forming two more shapes where students will fill-in House of Representatives and Senate. Under the shape listing the Executive branch will be a line extending to another shape. In this shape, students will write President. Below this, another line will extend to form another shape where students will write Vice President. Under the shape listing the Judicial branch will be a line extending to another shape. In this shape, students will write Supreme Court. For upper level grades, the branches can be further divided. Also, to make this lesson current, in parenthesis, students can write the name of the current President and Vice President. Once students create these graphic organizers they can better understand, by means of visual representations, how the U.S. Federal Government is divided.

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 * 1) North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
 * 2) http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
 * 3) This website would be very helpful to me because of the numerous graphic organizers it has. For example, as an elementary teacher, I could use the cycle graphic organizer (a circle) to teach the water or rain cycle. First, my students would need to draw any source of water they want, like an ocean or a lake on the bottom of the cycle. Then continuing to the right, they could show how water vapor is taken from the ocean or lakes and evaporated into the air by the sun, which is drawn at the top of the cycle. Now to the left of the sun my students would need to draw a cloud because the water vapor the sun creates turns into clouds. Next, my students could draw rain coming from the cloud because when the cloud becomes too full, the moisture leaks out as rain or snow. The rain or snow would then fall into the ocean and lakes, which is where we began. And the cycle continues over and over and over. This graphic organizer would be a great way to allow my students to visualize how the water cycle works and how it continues to repeat itself.

//11. http://www.graphic.org/bstring.html// This is a website for the graphic organizer called linear string. I think this is a perfect graphic organizer for organizing steps of a process assignment. This kind of graphic organizer would be perfect to break down the steps of an assignment for a student so that it wouldn't seem like so much all at once. For example, this can be used for a paper. The students can write the steps of the paper in the graphic organizer such as brainstorming, outline, rough draft, and final paper. The teacher can break down due dates for all of these assignment and have a different part of it due on different days. The graphic organizer can be a spot to take notes about each step so that when the students go to work on that part they can refer to the graphic organizer for hints, tips, suggestions, and ideas. This website also has a lot of other graphic organizer ideas on it and is a great reference for lots of ideas.//

12. A) Education Place B) http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/sequence.pdf C) I think this graphic organizer would be useful in a social studies classroom. It allows the student to clearly break down events in time in the exact order they happen. For example, if we were discussing a specific issue in history, we could begin with the main topic and break down the main components of it. This might also be a helpful way to organize a paper or project on the topic as well since the main idea will be broken down and easier to chunk into subtopics by the end.

13.// A. Education Place B. http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ C. This website would be very useful in helping me create endless lesson plans because of the abundant amount of graphic organizers it has. For example, I could use the sandwich chart for a writing lesson in a 2nd grade class. This would be one of the first drafts the student would make. After giving them a writing prompt (e.g. My favorite sport is because __,__ ___, and__ _.) I would pass out this worksheet and have them fill in the parts of the sandwich. The topic, which would be their favorite sport, is the top slice of the bread. The three details (the tomatoes, lettuce, and meat) would be their three reasons why they chose the sport they did. They would then write a concluding sentence (the bottom slice of bread) to finish their draft. If time allowed, I would let them color their sandwiches. From here, we could start writing a longer essay. This lesson would help them learn what main ideas are involved in a paragraph or paper and would be very easy to reference when teaching.

14 A) teachervision B) http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html C) I could use this site in a number of ways. I could take one of the KWL charts and apply it to a number of different lessons. If I were to teach a lesson about mammals, I could have the students fill out the K and the W (know and want to know) sections of the chart before we read a simple informational book about mammals. We could either do it as a class or I could have each student have their own individual copy that they can fill out themselves. After we have read the book we would go back to the chart and fill in the L (learned) section and answer any of the questions we had about mammals before we read the book.

15. A) ProTeacher B) http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=16347&external=http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/&original=http://www.proteacher.com/020067.shtml&title=Graphic%20Organizer%20Worksheets C) I would use this graphic organizer to learn more about a novel that my students are reading in English or Social Studies. For example, if the students are reading a book about a soldier in the American Revolution, they can use this organizer to write down words they don't understand. This would give them the opportnity to define the word they don't know, and to connect it to other things they're learned about the subject so that it will help them remember the word better.

16.A. Graphic Organizers to PrintB B. http://www.teachingheart.net/pgraphic.html C. I could use this site to help me in many different ways with any lesson that I wanted. If I were doing a lesson on writing, I would choose the beginning, middle, and end chart. I would have them develop their story on this graphic organizer and then have them write the paper when they have completed this sheet. This graphic organizer is a great way to show students that are struggling with writing structure and so on. This will help them to visually see how the paper is supposed to be set up.

17. A. Houghton Mifflin English Grades 6-8/Graphic Organizers B. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/graphorg/ C. This site has a **free** list of graphic organizers available to print and use in the classroom. Of the many useful organizers, there are two that caught my attention. First, I would use the **__Observation Chart__** in a writing lesson. This organizer is comprised of five sensory headings (sight/sound/touch/taste/smell). Given a topic the students brainstorm with a partner to develop a word bank of sensory adjectives that can later be implemented in their independent writing. For example, the topic could be a genre such as mystery stories. My second choice is the **__Sandwich Chart__** which is not only very cute, but useful. I would use this organizer for younger students (perhaps 2nd & 3rd) to practice organizing their thoughts during the pre-writing process. This would make a great ‘Back to School’ activity when assigned to write about their summer activities. The finished projects could be shown as a wall display or a bulletin board. 18.A) Education Place B) [|http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/]  C) This website has over 30 different types of graphic organizers. It would be very useful for a variety of lesson plans, especially if you are teaching the primary grades because many are creatively put together. One of my favorites was the 5W’s chart. I would use the organizer in Language Arts when having my students construct a personal narrative. It is essential to have the 5W’s in a story, so this chart is the perfect guide and reminder since many students tend to leave the details out of narratives or do not know what to write.

19. A. Graphic Organizers Links B. http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/graphicorganizers/ C. I like the concept wheel for vocabulary. The wheel is broken up into 4 parts. The student writes a word they don't understand in one spot, then they put a list of words they think of when they hear the first word in the next box, in the third part they write the formal definition of the word from the dictionary, and in the fourth part they write the defintion in their own words. I think this is an excellent way for students to learn vocabualry they don't know. The student gets to look up the word in the dictionary writie down its meaning and then put the defintion in their own words. I think this will ais students in any grade level when learning vocabulary. You could also make this concept map into a type of foldable where students could add more information about each word.

20. A: Teach-nology.com B: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/neworg/wheel.html C: I would use this when discussing the effects of gravity on the solar system. Gravity would go in the center circle and in the pie pieces around it would be the effects like tides, speed of planets, shape of planets/asteroids, orbits, etc.). I would then have the students break up into groups and prepare a mini-presentation about each effect and have them present their information to the class for a minute or two. This could be turned into a foldable and each pie piece would be a fold and under the fold the students could put more detailed information about each effect.

21.  A. Reading Quest B. http://www.readingquest.org/strat/ C.  From Reading Quest, I chose History Frames. I would use this while teaching the specific event in history. I if I were teaching the Civil War as the event, the students would fill in the graph with what the problem was that cause the war or the goal of it. They would also list the people that were involved and were it took place. They would have to seek out key event that took place during the war, like the Battle of Gettysburg. Finally, the student would have to see what the outcome of the war. The last box could be the obvious theme or lesson, but it also “so what,” so I feel it could be their own opinion of the event 22. A. [|www.edhelper.com] B. http://www.edhelperclipart.com/clipart/teachers/org-timeline.pdf C. From edhelper, I chose a timeline flow chart. Since one of my endorsements is social sciences I thought that might be a good one to use. I think that it will be beneficial in my classroom when studying wars or important poeple's life. It is an easy way for students to keep dates, names, places, and times in order and in an organized manner. The timeline can be shrunk and copied so the there is more boxes for a long line, or you can do chunking and each timeline is different for each chunk.

23. A: Teacher vision B: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html C: I would use the steps in a process graphic organizer to give the steps in a science experiment that the students are going to do. I think that this graphic organizer would be a good visual aid in the process of an experiment and make it easier for them to perform.

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