Skill: Create 1.1.2 Creating a Content Map Quest

Consider the topic isolated in the beginning of this quest. What should be included in the Content Map? What aspects of online learning are essential to integrate in the process? Using a format explored above, create a Content Map for the chosen topic. Post the completed Content Map in your blog.

A concept map is a way to help students organize ideas in a graphic organizer. They start with a main idea/concept and each branch demonstrates how the main idea can be broken down into specific steps or concepts. The great thing about concept maps is no two are exactly alike because no all students think alike. In an online environment a concept map is great to do with students in a synchronous session as a group, or as a formative assessment to gage student thinking.

For this Quest I am using the concept of cells. There are a lot of standards that relate to cells, so a concept map is a great way to review the material with students. I used Bubble.us yto create teh concept map: