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Create your own graphic organizer for something you will be teaching (or doing) soon. Post your organizer (or your idea for one) to the wiki under the Graphic Organizer page (i.e. this one).

Please post your graphic organizer (or idea for one) in the table below. Remember, //if you just have an idea, you do not have to actually make the organizer//, you can just click in the cell and type out your description of your idea (keeping it short, please).

If you are interested in trying out a new web 2.0 graphic organizer tool, click here for a whole list of options.


 * Directions to post:** 1. Click in the table cell to the right of your name. 2. Click Edit (by the pencil). 3. Click on the file icon to the left of the little TV on the editor bar. 4. Click upload. 5. Find your graphic organizer on your computer, click on it to select it, then click Open. 6. Double click the icon for your file. 7. Click Save, then Save again. 8. Your file should now show up in the table next to your name.

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 * Sherry Crofut || I have a number of new projects to work on at TIE, so using bubbl.us I mapped out the follow plan for my National Board Support project. It gives me a clear idea of what I need to do and what I need to think about. After creating it, I took a screen shot and pasted it into a word document for posting purposes, but I believe you can also find it [|here].
 * Nancy Block || I liked the Text2Mind maps [] I would like use this site to do some basic character identification. The site looks easy to navigate. I made an example from a 4th grade book in our Guided Reading library.

|| [|http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/GO/GO_pdf/story_structure.pdf] || [] || Here is an example [|Next Stop College] pamphlet that I like for 9th and 10th graders. || Wipf || My school district is on school improvement so we are using a set Literacy program which provides a series of graphic organizersrs which we are required to use. I do a unit on being a friend so this graphic organizer on the website that Julia suggested would be great! Thanks Julia!! http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2007S/go/bp_socstudthemes_p16_go.pdf || Thanks for the idea to use the Text2Mind site! I went there to create this organizer to introduce a unit on rocks. I love the idea of having the students use this application on my Interwrite board. Then maybe we could use the pen feature to add additional lines to show the interconnection of the rock cycle. || label it biotic. It is a great way for students to prove to me that they understand the vocabulary term. When they are finished they have an entire environment pictured and labeled. It helps them see how all the terms are related to each other. Also its user friendly!!! This semester I am going to try it in Physical Science. They will have to show pictures of Newton's Laws in action. || [|http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2007S/go/wr2004_13_go.pdf] There are other graphic organizers on this site under the graphic organizer tab on the left hand side of the page. [|http://www.timeforkids.com] ||
 * Nicole Weron || I like using the Venn Diagram for teaching self-esteem to students. We have two people who we compare their likes and dislikes. They put their dislikes on the outside of the circles and the center where the circles overlap they put the things they like or have in common. Students often find that they have a lot in common for creating friendships. They find that their differences also set them apart and make them unique, special individuals. They Venn Diagram is also hailed by Marzano. ||
 * Lonna Hanson || I work with struggling students in Reading in Math. They are a little nervous when they come to their first class with me as they leave their home classroom and come to mine. I use Venn diagrams, including doing one myself. It just is such a good way to have fun and see that our circles end up with a lot of ways that we are the same and our individual differences make us unique. They laugh when they learn that teachers take classes, too, and also study. My school district uses the Scott Foresman reading program-My Sidewalks Intervention-it strongly supports the use of graphic organizers ||
 * Alberta Rouse || I teach a Writing Class for the GED Writing test. My students often have trouble getting organized. I find the graphic organizer at this site to be helpful--it is simple but still helps students keep on track.
 * Mary Helen Olsen || I teach 8th grade Religion. One tool that I would like to try is ToonDo, a comic book design site. Working in groups, students could create stories about moral decisions they face and how they would resolve them.
 * Beth Bury || Near the end of the year, I have my third graders create favorite book Power Points. I have them use a planning sheet to plan out their thinking before they begin looking for images and working on their slides. My planning sheet is in Word with lines to write on because I require my students to write in complete sentences and this form seems to help them organize their thoughts better. [[file:Favorite Book Slide Show planning sheet.doc]] ||
 * Lisa Parry || This link will take you to a graphic organizer I like to use with my seniors as they explore various careers as part of their "shadow experience" and with all of my literature classes as they consider the motivation(s) of characters we study. I hope it is useful to you. [|http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/goal_reason.pdf] ||
 * Kim Elder || I use graphic organizers, check lists and information sheets from the website [|mygreatlakes.org] . They provide post-secondary information for 9-12 grades. The information is free and updated every year.
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 * Alissa Hugelman || [[image:mindmap.jpg width="597" height="295"]]
 * Linda Wegleitner || media type="custom" key="6530375" ||
 * Nancy Block Self Quiz for Noncognitive Characteristics || This is a self quiz for the noncognitive characteristics. There are 3 questions for each of the 8 characteristics. [[file:Positive self concept.docx]] ||
 * Brent Konvalin || I also use Toondoo.com a couple of different times a year. One example is having students define environmental vocabulary terms. They then have to find a cartoon that shows this vocab term correctly. When they define the word biotic, they find a picture of a living organism and then
 * Julia Trevillyan || Main idea is a hard concept for kids to grasp so our classes have used graphic organizers.
 * Lauren Antonen || At the beginning of the year in 8th grade math we work on transforming word phrases into algebraic expressions. This can be very difficult for some students to do, so I created an organizer that might help them to associate the words with the operations. I went to text2mindmap.com as others had and it was very fast and easy to use!

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 * Dell Poppinga || Thanks for the information on text2mindmap.com. It worked really well except for one minor drawback. In my organizer, I wanted to be able to draw 2 lines to a common lower level box (since a square can also be classified as a rhombus or a rectangle). My workaround was to get it the best I could in text2mindmap and then edit the jpeg in MS Paint. My organizer is to help 7th graders learn special quadrilaterals based on the number of parallel sides that the special quadrilateral possesses.
 * Nancy Block || I plan to use this graphic organizer to help kids remember what they need to bring to school each day, it is something they'd use at home, maybe post it by their door as a last minute reminder each day. I'll have them go to the lab and create their own on the site [|www.text2mindmap.com] . [[image:Remindermindmap.jpg width="575" height="387" align="left"]] ||
 * Julie Graczyk || I use story maps with my longer pieces of literature: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Pearl, I also use clustering for character studies. For Juliet, we will cluster her strengths, weaknesses, physical description. I also use a diagram of Freytag's pyramid to have students plot the points of the development of a story. ReadWriteThink has graphic organizers that are fun to use. [] ||
 * Tawnya Jensen || Here is a screen shot of the lesson that I do when we are learning about 3 types of balance. Usually I have the students fill it in like notes, and then draw an example...
 * Sandy Gant || All students are required to complete a resume. The following will organize their information and what area it will pertain to. ||
 * Shannon Zimiga || This is a sample graphic we use to accompany a short novel we read in Spanish. ||
 * Lorna Hofer || I will be teaching a career planning/development class for freshmen this school year. I will use have them use a
 * Ruthann Bach || I use a form of Outlining to organize my tasks for a week. I have 4 topics that stay the same each week: Me, Kids, Personal Business, and Business. Below each is an * for items connected to that topic. A dash (-) under each subtopic identifies specific steps to complete the item. I use a highlighter for steps or items that must be done that day. ||
 * Amy Howardson || I had my graphic organizers posted earlier in the week and when viewing these tonight, I noticed mine was no longer here. So, here it is again. When reviewing the eight parts of speech I use graphic organizers. [[file:Adj and Adv graphic organizers.pdf]]. ||
 * Jennifer Ringkob || The seniors don't always think that they have enough skills or job experience or awards to fill a resume, so I use a graphic organizer with categories so they can recall and list all of the different experience they have acquired. I use columns, circles, squares, or a flow chart depending on the needs of the room to help them gather information. ||
 * Stacey Larson || I use a graphic organizer to divide up our school yearbook. It helps the students see what pages/ topics are included in each section and how they are all put together. ||
 * Ty Barker || In all my classes we use graphic organizers to do career exploration. They each start out with the core subject that what the class is, they then break it down into three different careers that they might be interested in. They then have to do research on each of the careers; schooling needed, pay scale, type of day-to-day tasks, exc. They then build charts to compare the three careers that they chose. Once they are all done, they do a quick presentation on each of the careers. We also use graphic organizers a lot when it comes to building projects. ||
 * Jessie Jeffery || At the end of each trimester, each of my 6th graders is assigned a Spanish-speaking country to research (mostly basic facts and pictures). Then they use the information they find to design a travel poster. In the past I've given them a checklist with very specific information to find, but I this year I will try a graphic organizer. The name of the country can go in the middle and the main details I want them to find (capital, population, leader, etc) can go around it. I'll put blank bubbles around the main points for the students to fill in with extra information that they find. ||
 * Kerri Severson Stover || I, too, use many of the graphic organizers Kim Elder mentioned above. In addition, I would like to create a graphic organizer that outlines all the duties of everyone in our department. We have something like that now, but it's not very "orderly". I also give students/families a graphic handout titled "How To Do Better on Tests". It outlines what effective steps students can take before testing. Unfortunately, I have it only in hard copy, though, so I'm not able to attach a link. It is published by an organization called The Parent Institute out of Fairfax Station, VA. ||
 * Rui Sukut || [|Color Wheel] I had a lot of fun with Creately. I can see many practical uses for my classroom, and also for my everyday organizing (grocery lists, phone tree for parent groups, etc.) I would use this color wheel for students to either fill in parts or to create their own before painting. It is quick and "clean", as apposed to my usual art lessons! ||
 * Bev Ball || [[file:Probable Passage.doc]] ||
 * Steve Erickson || I use this with my 4th grade social studies class. We add information to it as we discuss each region.
 * Mary Day || I also use a graphic organizer when my students are preparing a resume. I have them arrange the organizer by the various parts that make up a resume such as education, work experience, community service involvement, skills, leadership, and extra-curricular actities. It helps them to organize the body of their resume before they begin the actual formatting process. ||