Use of Bridge Maps – Bridge maps assist students with understanding relationships and analogies.
- How have you used a bridge map to show relationships or analogies in your teaching this week?
- What was the first pair and the second pair?
- What was the relating factor?
- Did the relating factor assist students with the understanding of the pairs?
- Did the student's Frame of Reference help guide the map?
Going a bit further – Give analogies to students in a variety of ways: give them a pair of words and ask for the relating factor; give a relating factor and ask for a pair of words that fits the relationship; give students the top of one relationship and the bottom of the other pair and ask them to try to complete the bridge map.
Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, May 4, 2012.
This week I utilized a bridge map to help students understand subliminal information from movies. In the movies we see lights that appear to represent hope and when lights go off it seems to represent hope going away. I asked students to write an event on the left of the bridge map that seemed to represent a metaphor or potential subliminal message by the producer. On the right the student wrote the meaning or synonym of the metaphor. Finally, the student described the relationship between the two describing why the audience should perceive the desired message.
ReplyDeleteI was unable to use the bridge map, this week. I could not find any subject being taught to into it. I will continue to look for ways in the future to include it, though.
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