High Leverage Practice #8:

Go Visual

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Existentialist…Wondering People

… have the ability to be sensitive to and have the capacity for, conceptualizing or tackling deeper or larger questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why are we born, why do we die, what is consciousness, or how did we get here. They learn best through seeing the "big picture" of human existence by asking philosophical questions about the world.

Visual/Spatial Intelligence “Picture smart" people learn best visually and

tend to organize their thinking spatially. They like to think and create pictures. They are also drawn to information that is presented in a visual form.

…65 percent of the population consists of visual learners

Visual Tools for LearningResearch shows that communication is:

55% visual (gestures, body movement, posture, and environmental cues)

37% vocal (intensity and tone of voice, rate and volume of speech)

7% the actual message

Graphic/Advance Organizer: Water Cycle

Graphic/Advance Organizers

Graphic tools used by students to gather and absorb new information.

Prepared by teachers using drawing programs such as Inspiration or online resources

Mindmap of the Water Cycle

Webbing and MindmappingTopic of attention is

focused in a central image

Main themes of the subject radiate from the central image on branches

Branches hold an image/word printed on

the associated line Branches form an

interconnected structure.

Exciting New Webbing Tools

VISUWORD

Word Clouds

Concept Map of the Water Cycle

A concept is an object or event given by a wordConcepts are ranked from more to least

inclusive (i.e., CMaps are hierarchical)Include “Linking Words”Two concepts connected by a linking word

makes a “Proposition”Propositions explain the relationship between

conceptsCross links can be added to show multiple

relationships among concepts.

Concept/Thinking Maps

• Designed to facilitate thinking  • Challenges one's assumptions• Facilitates recognizing new patterns • Promotes making new cognitive connections • Helps to visualize the unknown• Can lead to reconceptualization

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Hemingway

Visual Tools for Learning

High Leverage Practice #8: Go Visual

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