What a great concept!

Concept Mapping gives students and teachers a better way to connect the learner to visually understand the material. Kidspiration.com is a website that offers the tools to help teachers utilize concept mapping. The students can then learn visually, then click on the "writing" button and see their map turn into writing- where they see their ideas in a reading form. Below I have created a Table to see ways a teacher may utilize this website to create a concept map to use in the classrooms.

Grade	Content Area	Activity Description	How would I utilize this activity?
1st grade	Addition & Pairing	Math- Adding It Up	Seeing can help understand. My students would work alone in their computer time.
3rd grade	Learning Fractions	Math- Almost Halves	Viewing & filling in graphs can help understand numerator & denominator relations. Would demo as a class to understand the concept.
3rd or 4th grade	Animal Grouping & Writing	Science- Animal Classifications	Students would work together to explore & group animal. Would then work alone to write about their findings.
3rd or 4th grade	Character Descriptions	Reading/Writing- Character Analysis	Students would gather full description of character and relations to other characters. Would map broad relationships and descriptive traits and then write about them.
4th grade	Mapping	Geography- Puzzle Map	Students would work together to learn about state shapes & abrev. Would then write about each states individual findings.

"A good plan is like a road map; it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there".
- H. Stanley Judd