Graphic+Organisers




 * What are graphic organisers? **
 * Graphic organisers** are visual representations of knowledge, concepts and/or ideas that:
 * assist in organising thoughts
 * help clarify information
 * enhance recall
 * provide motivation
 * create interest
 * promote understanding

**Why should I use graphic organisers?** Three very good reasons why graphic organiser should be used:
 * 1) Students are more likely to remember and understand the content being learned
 * 2) The organisers help separate what is important to know from what is interesting but not essential
 * 3) Students are strategic learners. C ommunication skills, analytical, critical, and creative thinking skills will improve when students learn to recognise these patterns of thinking and are able to construct and effectively use graphic organisers

**When should I use graphic organisers?**
 * [[image:http://www.learningservicesus.com/shop/images/th_LER5399.jpg align="right"]] If you think of the lesson content or unit plan as having a beginning, middle, and end, graphic organisers can be used during any of these segments.
 * Use graphic organisers to facilitate students’ activation of prior knowledge and to create anticipation for future learning
 * Introduce graphic organisers as new content is being explored.
 * Graphic organisers are effective ways to facilitate review of previously taught materials.
 * Use graphic organisers to teach processes and strategies. Incorporate them into guidelines for writing book reports, show mathematical workings, science investigations, etc.
 * Graphic organisers also be used to help students set goals and organise tasks.

**How do I make good use of graphic organisers ?** Initially graphic organisers require alot of class time so do keep in mind the following information:
 * Students’ learning curves as well as your own will be steep. They are not only learning the content, they are also learning how to read the graphic organiser. You will likely find that later, similar lessons require considerably less time because both you and your students have become familiar with the format.
 * **Less is more--depth is more**. While it may seem like the graphic organiser requires time and effort, without these thinking frames students are not as likely to readily understand or remember for very long the content you are teaching.
 * **The rule - keep it simple!**
 * Graphic organisers allow you to teach more than just the content. You are also teaching information processing skills, patterns for organising information, analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as communication skills.

The flowchart below will assist with determining the most appropriate graphic organiser to use:

**Who constructs and instructs the graphic organisers?** There are four stages that enable students the ability to eventually use and construct graphic organisers
 * 1) The **teacher** provides the students with a copy of the graphic organiser and uses it when teaching the content
 * 2) **Teacher and students** co-construct graphic organisers depicting important ideas as the content is explored
 * 3) **Teams of students** co-construct gaphic organisers via co-operative learning and the teacher acts as the guide on the side
 * 4) **Students independently** use the graphic organisers and are able to apply them to other contexts

**What are some of the graphic organisers we can use?**  [|brainstorm map.doc] [|brainstorm map2.pdf]
 * ~  ||||= Brainstorm Map

 || Circle Map [|circle map 1.doc] [|circle map2. pdf] || Single Bubble Map <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|single bubblemap1.doc] [|single bubblemap2.doc] || Spider Diagram <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|spider diagram1.doc] [|Template A] [|Template B] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ||
 * ~  |||| [|Examples 1][| 2][| 3] || [|Examples 1][|2] || [|Examples 1][|2] || Examples 1 2 ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Template A <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Template B] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Concept Map
 * = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tree Diagram

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Template A [|Template B] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ||= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Venn Diagram <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Template A] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|create own]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Explanation] ||= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mindmap [|create own]

<span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Double Bubble Map <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|double bubblemap1.doc] Template B <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> ||
 * [|Examples 1][|2] || [|Examples 1][|2][|3] || [|Examples 1][|2][|3] || [|Examples 1][|2][|3] || [|Examples 1] [|2] ||


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matrix Diagram

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Template ATemplate B <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> || T-charts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Template A] [|create own] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Timeline Flowchart <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Template A Template B || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Storyboard <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">[|Template A] Template B || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Part-Whole Map <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Template A Template B

|| <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * Examples 1 2 || [|Examples 1] [|2] || [|Examples 1] [|2] || [|Examples 1] [|2] [|3] || [|Examples 1] 2 ||


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fishbone Diagram

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Template A [|Create own]

|| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Systems Diagram Template A [|Template B] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Decision Making Matrix <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Template A [|create own] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">POE (Predict, Observe, Explain) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Template A] Template B

||
 * [|Examples 1][|2][| 3] || [|Examples 1][|2][| 3] || [|Example 1] || [|Example 1] ||


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">More graphic organisers to download (Word doc links): **
 * [|First Question] || [|FOUR EVENT SEQUENCE] || [|SIX EVENT SEQUENCE] || [|Nine Event Sequence] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/FQ.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/FES.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/SES.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/NES.gif]] ||
 * [|Supporting reasons-conclusion] || [|Blooming Words and Phrases] || [|Bone Diagram] || [|Boolean] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/reasons.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/flower.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/bone.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/boolean.gif]] ||
 * [|BRANCHING DIAGRAM 1] || [|BRANCHING DIAGRAM 2] || [|Cause and Effect Chain 1] || [|Cause and Effect 2] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/branch1.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/branch2.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/sequence1.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/sequence2.gif]] ||
 * [|Cause and effect chart] || [|Cause and Effect-Fishbone Map] || [|Multiple Causes for an Effect] || [|Relationship] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/CauseEffect.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/fish.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/multicause.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/relationship.gif]] ||
 * [|Cause and Effect T-Chart] || [|Cause and Effect Web] || [|Compare and contrast 1] || [|Compare and Contrast 2] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/ComConTchart.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/causeEffect1.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht19.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht20.gif]] ||
 * [|Compare and contrast 3] || [|COMPARE ME TO A CHARACTER IN A BOOK] || [|Compare and Contrast 4] || [|Comparison and Contrast reasons] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht21.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht22.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht23.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht24.gif]] ||
 * [|Compare A, B &C] || [|Reality vs. Fiction] || [|Now and Then T-Chart] || [|Compare and Contrast-Venn Diagram] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht25.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht26.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht27.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht28.gif]] ||
 * [|Concept Spider] || [|Concept Star] || [|Concept web] || [|5 ELEMENT WEB] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht29.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht30.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht31.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht32.gif]] ||
 * [|4 Element Web] || [|Look at Me] || [|Consensogram] || [|6 ELEMENT web] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht33.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht34.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht35.jpg]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht36.gif]] ||
 * [|Cycle Sequence] || [|Directions: How to Make...] || [|What Effects can you Find?] || [|Fishbone2] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht37.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht38.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht39.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht40.gif]] ||
 * [|GENERAL TO SPECIFIC] || [|T CHART FOR IMPROVING WORK HABITS] || [|Issues map] || [|Judging the Internet Sources] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht41.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht42.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht43.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht44.gif]] ||
 * [|Keyword Search] || [|Knowledge Chart] || [|KWL chart] || [|K-W-L-H] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht45.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht46.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht47.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht48.gif]] ||
 * [|DIVISION OF LABOR CHART] || [|ORAL PRESENTATION NOTE CARD FORMAT] || [|PMI - Positive Minus Interesting] || [|Problems-Solutions] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht49.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht50.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht51.jpg]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht52.gif]] ||
 * [|Research] || [|Source Card for a Book] || [|PATTERN SPIDER PRE-WRITE] || [|Storyframe for a story] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht53.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht54.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht55.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht56.gif]] ||
 * [|T-chart] || [|Various Charts] || [|Think, Pair, Share] || [|Three way venn diagram] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht57.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht58.jpg]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht59.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht60.gif]] ||
 * [|TASK AND TIME PLAN] || [|Timeline in Excel] || [|Wedding Cake] || [|What I have Learned] ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht61.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht62.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht63.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht64.gif]] ||
 * [|Who, What, When, Why, and How2] || [|Who, What, When, Where, How1] || [|Y chart] ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht65.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht66.gif]] || [[image:http://www.croydonsc.vic.edu.au/foundation2/Think/GrOrganisers/images/GO1.ht67.gif]] ||  ||

The following graphic organisers are pdf files that can be printed then written on. In some cases they can also be added to. [|42 page pdf file of graphic organisers] [|ABC Brainstorming] [|Blank Monthly Calendar] [|Cause and Effect Chain] [|Circle Diagram] [|Clock] [|Clock Diagram (make own)] [|Cluster Diagram] [|Comparison-Contrast Chart] [|Concept Map (for lesson/unit)] [|Concept Event Map] [|Conclusions Chart] [|Cycle Diagram (make own)] [|E-Chart] [|Evaluation Pyramid] [|Fishbone Planner] [|Five W's] [|Five W's and H] [|Flowchart] [|Frayer Model (make own)] [|Free Form Circle Web] [|General Organiser] [|Icecream Cone] [|KWHL (make own)] [|KWL Chart] [|Main Idea and Details Chart] [|Making Connections] [|Persuasive Planner] [|Photo Scrapbook] [|Pie Chart] [|Positive-Negative Chart] [|PMI (make own)] [|Rank Order Chart] [|Sandwich] [|Sensory Details Chart] [|Sequence Chain] [|Spider Map] [|Story Map] [|Think, Pair, Share] [|Timeline] [|Timeline Form] [|Weekly Journal] [|What If Chart] [|Y-Chart (make own)]