- Tree Maps help classify and sort details about a topic.
- How have you used a Tree Map to help students detail and categories specific details of a topic?
- Remember to incorporate the Frame of Reference to help students understand where they learned the information they are detailing.
Going a bit further – Give students a list of words or a group of objects and have them classify the same information in two or three different ways. Students should then explain why they have classified the information to the way they have and make a judgement about which way they think is best.
Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, March 30, 2012.
We used the tree map this week to list the essential elements of a major scale: begin and end on the same note;use letters in alpabetical order, with no repeated letters;use pattern of 1,1,1/2,1,1,1,1/2 steps and having scales with flat/sharps, but not both to check each scale we were practicing. Students will be able to use the tree map for checking work on the test after spring break.
ReplyDeleteWe used a tree map to explore the composers and music of the Classical Era in music. The students wrote Classical Era on the trunk of the tree. Each branch was the name of a composer during the Classical Era. The branches off of each of the composers were compositions by that composer.
ReplyDeleteWe used a tree map in my Music Appreciation class to describe the details of Be Bop Jazz. Be Bop was the tree trunk and the students included different characteristics of Be Bop style Jazz for the branches of Be bop. We ended up doing a tree map for every type of Jazz we discussed and this was a great styding tool.
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