Conceptual map


What is it?

It is a learning tool created by Joseph D. Novak, which works as a strategy, method or schematic resource for learning.


Recommendations to develop a conceptual map.

  • Identify the topic, read it as many times as you need to understand the concepts and main ideas you want to develop.
  • Write down, separately and summarized, all the concepts and definitions in the order you want to learn them.
  • Try to organize all these concepts, from the most general to the most specific.
  • Divide the longest or most important concepts into 3 or 4 phrases that you can relate among them, so you do not work with paragraphs but with small chunks.
  • Use connectors to join phrases and concepts, this will allow you to understand better the topic.

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