What is Phenomena Mapping?

Traditional graphic organizers depict common ways to organize information

• Hierarchic

• Compare & Contrast

• Cause/effect

• Sequence

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Hierarchic pattern

• Depict “whole-to-part”• Don’t confuse with phenomena maps

have no mass

have no electrical charge

can pass throughmost materials; thick

concrete or metal plates can stop

Beta Particles

has a single negative charge identical to an

electron

can pass through paper, but not wood, heavy clothing, or

metal plate

Alpha Particles

2 protons & 2 neutrons bound

together

easily stopped by paper or

person's skinhas a positive charge of 2 emitted from

nucleus of atom at very high speeds

Radioactivity

Gamma Rays

Compare/contrast pattern

• Address similarities & differences• Don’t confuse with phenomena maps

Moves by wind & ocean currents

Icebergs Ice floes

Begin on land as glacier formed from

snowflakesVery slow formation

Take hundreds or thousands of years to form

Bulk is below water

Roll over unexpectedly

Edge: crisp sharp. jagged

May have boulders, rocks & gravel frozen in them

Chunks break off & fall into water

Float in ocean

Made of ice

Different colors

Polar regions

Evaporate & melt

Begin in water

Relatively quick formation

Top of ocean freezes - makes a layer of ice

Breaks apart and refreezes together

Moves by wind only

Edge: usually eroded

Floats on top of water

100% ice

Cause/effect pattern

Brain Damage

Drug Use

Liver Damage

Death

Poor diet

AggressiveLoss of Friends

Stealing

Jail

Low self concept

Loss of Intelligence

Social Outcast

BehaviorChanges

Social Withdrawal

Mind Changes

Impaired memory

Ad

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Overdose

Exp

ense

Sell drugs to support

habit

Don’t confuse with phenomena maps

Sequence pattern (cycle) W

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What is important to understand about this?

Building support for your cause using peaceful resistance

Leaders target part of the problem

School integration

Voting rights

Peaceful action targeted at getting media attention

Silent marches

Peaceful sit-ins, singing

Arrest = limp resistance

Speeches

Negative reaction of a few

Police beatingsWater cannon &

Fires (buses & houses)

Verbal abuse

Media influence on public opinion

TV -->world-wide attention

Sympathy for cause

Public's revulsion

Politicians change laws

Peaceful resistance --very powerful way to cause change...let enemies defeat themselves with their own violence

is about...

Peaceful resistance

Cross burning

Don’t confuse with phenomena maps

Sequence pattern (linear)

How a bill becomes a law

Members of House

vote

Members of Senate

vote

President signs or vetoes

Congress may vote

to override

Sponsor writes

bill

Don’t confuse with phenomena maps

What is Phenomena Mapping?

• Just as there are common organizational structures, there are certain patterns of the way life unfolds

• These patterns can also be depicted visually or graphically, but are different from traditional graphic organizers

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Common patterns of phenomena include…

• Tension/Reaction• Risk Taking• Problem Solving• Control/Chaos• Data Bending• Double Standard

These patterns tend to be predictable & remain relatively stable, regardless of the genre of content or context in which the phenomena occurs.

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Consider these topics …

• How King George’s need to pay-off the French and Indian War debt led to destabilization of the American colonies and eventual American Revolutionary War

• The tension created by the need to booster an economy subsequently impacts ecology;

• How changes in seasonal weather patterns triggers changes in the plant life cycle

Each of these topics “unfold” in life following a predictable pattern

If students become familiar with the pattern, it becomes a “lens” through which complex topics can be more easily understood

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Why use Phenomena Maps? One of the primary emphasis of

content-area learning is examining…

• the occurrence of various events or phenomena

• why these events occur• the influence of these have on subsequent

phenomena• the interactions and interrelationships

among various phenomena

Phenomena maps help students “get it”15

In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

Learner doesnÕt have to work as hard to understand it.

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

Learner doesnÕt have to work as hard to understand it.

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

Learner doesnÕt have to work as hard to understand it.

You can teach more COMPLEX subject-matter

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

Learner doesnÕt have to work as hard to understand it.

You can teach more COMPLEX subject-matter

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In order to understand a complex phenomena, the learner has to figure the pattern of how it occurs.

The more complex the topic, the harder it is to determine the pattern

Phenomena maps make the pattern self-evident even before the new information is presented

Learner doesnÕt have to work as hard to understand it.

You can teach more COMPLEX subject-matter

Phenomena maps provide a powerful alternative to dumbing-down the curriculum

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