Concept Mapping | The road of rapid learning

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When studying scientific subjects or any other type, you will learn a variety of words, data, figures and concepts. In each new topic that appears there will be a series of words and ideas that sometimes seem endless. But each of the ideas within a particular topic is related in some way to the others.

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Children in school, according to different studies, acquire concepts through receptive learning. The problem of receptive learning in schools is that children memorize concepts to solve problems, but they fail in the real meaning of the concepts or formulas.

Therefore, it will help you to understand the subject if you see the subject as a whole; that is, how all words and ideas connect with each other. This is a more effective and useful way to study than to memorize data separately.

Actually, this should be a fairly familiar process for you. Even if you do not realize, analyze many of the elements of daily life, taking into account relationships or connections. For example, when you look at a collection of flowers, you can divide them into groups: roses, carnations and daisies. Then you associate the colors with the flowers: lilac, pink and white.

The flowers would be the theme in general. The subtopic, types of flowers. A topic makes more sense and you can understand it better if you understand how it is divided into ideas and how ideas relate to each other and to the subject in general.

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Sometimes it is necessary to organize the information visually to see the correlation between things and one of the most used techniques to organize these related ideas is the Conceptual Map.

The conceptual map seeks to acquire the meaning of an information, which forces the student to relate, play with the concepts and empathize with the content.

To make a concept map, you must first look for the most important keywords or ideas in the content. Imagine that the keywords you have chosen are School, Living Beings, Language Arts, Subtraction, Grammar, Mathematics, Experiments, Reports, Science, Sum, Novels.

Let's see this image that I made to illustrate this example

The general subject of this content would be the school, we will place this word in a box first. Then we will choose the subtopics: Language, Science, Mathematics. We will add these words to the map and continue in this way until the most important ideas and words are included.

To mark the appropriate connections we will use lines and place words between the lines that explain the nature of the connection as we can see in the previous image.

Do not worry if you have to delete and redo the map, that's normal and you can compile it in different ways, until you find the way you want.

Then there is no correct conceptual map for any subject!

Remember, your concept map will also be correct if it has meaning for you and if it helps you understand the material you are reading.

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^{If you want to read more about the subject, the sources of the information are linked to the words in the text, which leads to more extensive information.}