Mind Mapping Post Secondary Options
Name _____________________
Date ______________________
Where are you heading after you graduate from high school? What ideas do you have
milling around your brain?
What are your choices? What affects your choices? How can you make your dreams
happen?
In a mind map, you will brainstorm your ideas related to post-secondary life. Consider the
following three areas: your personal life (your wants, interests, family life, friends, finances);
your education (programs, school options, interests, finances); your work options (needs,
wants, finances, skills).
What is mind mapping? It’s an analytical process that involves creatively integrating a
combination of visuals, colour, codes, words, and connectors. It can be employed as a method to
brainstorm.
Why mind map? Mind maps enhance the brain’s capacity to store and recall information. Because
it uses visuals and colours, it provides an interesting way to make sense of something that a student is
thinking about.
In your mind map, you must include:
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A central image that represents the subject being mapped as well as the name of the
subject (ie: After high school)
Main themes that radiate like branches from that central image (ie: education, job
options, etc….you must include what is important to you)
Those branches have a key image or key word printed on an associated line
The branches have a connected structure
Colour
Name: __________________________
Date __________________________
Mind mapping post secondary options
Extending:
Proficient:
Developing:
Emerging:
Incomplete:
Central idea stands
out.
Clear; use of a
picture to relate to
key idea.
Use of a picture to
relate to key idea
but not eye catching.
Not a clear main
idea or ideas.
The mind map may
have been
attempted. Not yet
completed.
Ideas clearly connect
to central ideas and
images and mostly
move from most to
least complex.
Ideas radiate from
centre. Some
confusion with
which are most/
least complex.
Ideas clearly connect
to central image and
consistently and
accurately shift from
most to least
complex.
Dynamic use of
images and key
words (your ideas).
Effectively uses
colour, codes or
links to meaningfully
illustrate
connections on all
parts of map.
Extensions of the
key ideas show deep
understanding of the
content.
Images and key
words clearly show
an understanding of
the content,
although not that
memorable.
Clearly uses colour,
codes, links to clarify
connections and to
assist with memory
for most aspects of
map.
Shows a solid grasp
of the content and
extensions of most
key ideas.
Images and key
words are evident
but few or
imprecise.
Attempt made to
use colour to
enhance clarity and
memory.
Shows a basic level
of coverage of key
ideas but little
extension.
Little indication that
ideas are connected
in a meaningful way.
Few if any images or
key words.
Little or no colour,
codes.
Limited coverage of
content.