Use of Flow Maps – Flow maps assist students with understanding sequencing.
- How have you used a flow map to show sequencing in your teaching this week?
- What was the main topic/event Did you use a vertical or a horizontal flow map?
- Did you use sub–stages under or next to your major stages?
- Did the student's Frame of Reference help guide the map?
Going a bit further – Teach using a flow map backwards to see if students can figure out the main event/topic.
Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, April 20, 2012.
This week I asked the class to come up with ways to use a flow map and the major scales we are studying. Many suggestions came from the discussion. One student evn suggested we use it on a test to remember the order of keys on the circle of fifths. We decided for the class to begin with "C" and put the two tetrachords under it in the two boxes.The arrow lead us then(up a 5th) to the "G" scale and we continued until students relized the last tetrachord became the first tetrachord in the next scale we would write. We also discussed how a backwards flowmap would show going counter clockwise the flat keys.
ReplyDeleteThis week the flow map was use in Movie Criticism to see the sequence of foreshadowing in the movie Being There. Students were encouraged to choose an event that was discovered at the end of the movie and retrace the prior events that had foreshadowed this end event. This basically led to a reverse flow chart from the end of the movie back to the beginning events.
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