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Time
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Approximately 1 hour. | ||
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Objectives |
Once you have completed this knowledge mapping exercise you should be able to: | ||
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Use a semantic network as the basis for writing an essay. | ||
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| Exercise 1 | Preparing a Writing Exercise for Fifth or Sixth Graders Beginning with a Small Population Growth Net | ||
| Introduction | Imagine that you are teaching this lesson, "How Do Populations Grow?," to your class of fifth or sixth graders. Assume they are familiar with knowledge mapping using SemNet. | ||
| 1. | First determine the goal of the exercise. Supposing the goal is to help students understand the basic factors affecting populations and population growth. | ||
| 2. | The assignment will be for the students to write a one-page essay based upon a small semantic network called "2.7d Pop Growth Exercise Net."
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| 3. | First ask your students to construct an outline from the net, including both the relations and the concepts. You could give them the computer-based net to work from, or the graphic frames from the net captured in Figures 1 and 2 at the end of this lesson. | ||
| 4 | You could either construct the outline with the entire class participating, or you could ask your students to do it in small groups. | ||
| 5. | Finally, ask your students to use this outline to write a one-page essay about population growth. | ||
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