USING THINKING MAPS WITH THE KINDERGARTEN
STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY
Ideas from Kindergarten Teachers, Benvenue Elementary School, Nash-Rocky Mount Schools, through
work with CONNECTIONS-NC, Inc., 2010
CIRCLE MAP
FLOW MAP
TREE MAP
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Signs of Spring
Easter celebration
Ocean
Animals in the ocean
A garden
Hibernation
Water cycle
Weather events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, storms
Order of the seasons
Lifecycle of an animal or a seed
Growth and change of a sea turtle
Story Wanda's Roses; sequence of events in story.
If you were to clean up an outside area, what steps would you take
to accomplish that.
. Types (sorting and labeling) of trash.
. Earth day - Categorize efforts as reduce, reuse or recycle
. Categorize Community helpers
. 5 senses of spring
. Sort tools for measuring length, volume, temperature.
. Sort animals by how they move (crawl, fly)
. Sort animals by number of legs
. Study of the ocean:
Tier 1 Students: Sort by animals and plant
Sort by size
Sort by shells and no shells
Tier 2 Students: Sort by movement
Tier 3 Students: Sort by meat vs. plant eaters.
Sort by warm-blooded vs. cold-blooded
. Types of transportation by air, water, land
MULTI-FLOW MAP
. Pollution (Earth Day) - Causes and effects of a specific type (litter,
water, air, from cars, etc.)
. Weather disasters - hurricanes, storms, tornadoes
. Pollution for Ocean Unit
. Story Wanda's Roses - move from flow map to take 1 piece of story
and do multi-flow of causes and effects.
. Spread of Germs
BRACE MAP
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Parts of a flower
Parts of an insect
Tools
Parts of an animal
Mammals in the ocean
Reptiles in the ocean.
Math - Money -
$ .25
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$ 1.00
BRIDGE MAP
. Habitat of animals
- Ex. Moles
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underground
. Movement of animals
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birds
flutter
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. Life Cycle
- Ex. Tadpole
frog
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Patients
Lawyers
mice
scurry
caterpillar
butterfly
. Community Helpers
Ex. Policeman as
Police Station
Doctors
birds
trees
Fireman
Firehouse
Teachers
Students
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Courtrooms
Nurses
Hospitals
. Tools
Scissors
Cutting
DOUBLE BUBBLE MAP
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Hammers
Nails
. Comparing weather events
. Compare one sense (smell, taste, sight, sound, feel) of a season, per
group, to that same sense of another season.
. Comparing 2 animals
. Comparing 2 seasons.
. Comparing animals that fly with animals that walk or crawl
DOUBLE BUBBLE MAP
. Compare 2 sea animals.
. Compare winter animals to sea animals.
. For story Wanda's Roses, compare the lot that she cleaned up
before and after she cleaned it.
BUBBLE MAP
. 5 senses of spring
. Descriptors of their mothers for Mother's Day