Illustration: An Interactive Way to Teach History &
Geography
Mindscaping: An Interactive Way to Teach History & Geography
Teachers Convention-November 2015
Content Objectives What is Mindscaping?Tools of Mindscaping
Introducing Mindscaping in the Classroom Advantages of Mindscaping
Key Questions
Objectives By the end of the session participants will be able
to:define the term mindscapingidentify and describe the
mindscapping toolsanalyze the advantages of mindscaping employ the
mindscaping technique in their lessons
Ice-Breaker: Self Portraying On a sheet of paper with coloured
markers or crayons draw your portrait/important events or
milestones in your life Writing sentences or paragraph is not
allowed! (Time: 7min)
What is Mindscaping? The landscape of thoughts, areificationof
the domain of imaginary entities, memories, feelings, ideas or any
other object in the mind
Systems for using color, images, drawings, cartoons and symbols
as well as words and phrases for recording ideas
Tools for Mindscaping Cont
Tools for Mindscaping
Introducing Mindscaping in the Classroom
Video Discussion
Activity 1- Group Work In groups discuss the advantages of using
mindscaping in the classrooms both for teachers and students On a
flip chart organize your thoughts using one of the organizers
mentioned in the handout. (You can create your own organizer)
Volunteer group(s) to present
Advantages of Mindscaping
Key Questions ..
Is there research supporting use of graphic
organizers/mindscaping?Isnt this harder that it looks?Who benefits
from graphic organizers -- arent they for visual learners?Do
graphic organizers raise test-scores?
Guiding Principles for Using Graphic Organizers
Activity 2- Think Pair Share In pairs think when can you use the
mindscaping technique in a lesson
List the topics and the mindscaping tool(s) you can use to make
your lesson interactive
Samples from Notebooks
Activity 3- Micro-Teaching Group Work Choose a lesson from the
book (history or geography)
Select mindscaping tool(s) for explaining the lesson and
present
