A graphic organizer, also known as a knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram is a pedagogical tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge and concepts through relationships between them.
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The main purpose of a graphic organizer is to provide a visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction.
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Types of organizers
Graphic organizers take many forms:
*Relational organizers
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Storyboard
A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in t ...
** Fishbone -
Ishikawa diagram
*** Cause and effect web
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Chart
A chart (sometimes known as a graph) is a graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can represent ...
*** T-Chart
* Category/classification organizers
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Concept mapping
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KWL tables
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Mind mapping
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Sequence organizers
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Chain
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** Ladder - Story map
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Topic map
A topic map is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. Topic maps were originally developed in the late 1990s as a way to represent back-of-the-book index structures ...
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Dashboard
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Venn diagram
A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationship ...
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** Double bubble map
*Concept development organizers
** Story web
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Word web
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Circle chart
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Flow chart
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Cluster diagram
** Lotus diagram
** Star diagram
*Options and control device organizers
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Mechanical control panel
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Graphical user interface
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Enhancing students' skills
A review study concluded that using graphic organizers improves student performance in the following areas:
[Graphic Organizers: A Review of Scientifically Based Research, The Institute for the Advancement of Research in Education at AE]
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; Retention
: Students remember information better and can better recall it when it is represented and learned both visually and verbally.
See also
* Diagram
A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques. Diagrams have been used since prehistoric times on walls of caves, but became more prevalent during the Enlightenment. Sometimes, the technique uses a three ...
* Four square writing method
* KWL table
* Thinking Maps
* Visualization (graphic)
References
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Educational psychology
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