Week 10 - Concept Mapping

This concept map of classroom vocabulary would be used in a beginner level Spanish class.  I would have the students use this concept map to show the relationship between vocabulary words.  This "picture" would help them remember the vocabulary and the relationship to other words more easily.  For example, seeing the word for "male student" and how it relates to the words for "boy" and "young man" expands their vocabulary, yet allows them to recognize that these words are related in gender as well as in  meaning.  The word for "furniture" also includes different types of classroom furniture and items that go with that furniture, such as "chalkboard" and "chalk" or "desk" with "pencil," "paper" and "scissors."  


As a means of evaluation, students may be required to label a concept map with blanks to be filled in with the appropriate vocabulary words.