Adhesive Labels Help Critical Thinking Stick

It's an interdisciplinary strategy where a student or group build(s) of a single concept or idea: a drama, an element in chemistry, a biography, a vocabulary word, an event in history, a commercial product.

The concept or idea is placed in the center of a blank sheet of paper and representations of other ideas are connected to that central concept are added, branching out in all directions on the page.

Teachers can use mind-maps as a review exercise, a formative assessment, or an interim assessment tool, by providing students individually or in groups with printed labels and asking students to organize the information in a way that shows relationships.