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EXAMPLE: Escola Marta Mata. Laura Poveda.

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EXAMPLE: Escola Marta Mata. Laura Poveda.

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Grade: Grade 5 Primary.
Topic: Biography.
Type visual organiser: Mind map.
Description:  Students are asked to create a mind map, previous to the writing of the biography of a famous person. Afterwards, a 'Guess who' game is carried out.
Why is this visual organiser helpful?: To help students organise main ideas & paragraphs that need to be structured in a biography text.

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Grade: 2nd Grade
Topic: Pet vocabulary and Can/Can't structure.
Type visual organiser: Table
Description:
Students must fill the table with the correct adjectives following the can/can't structure.
After the activity, we are going to play the "Guess who" game and "mimic" practicing the previous structure.
Why is this visual organiser helpful?
To make the content comprehensible and help them to make appropriate sentences.

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Grade: 4th grade
Topic: Coordinates (Maths)
Type of visual organizer: Grid
Description of the activity: Battleship game.
Students must draw some ships (the ones they have next to it
with different length) in the first grid. Then, they must use the second grid
to draw and discover their opponents’ ships.
To do so, they must use coordinates, for example (A,1,) and
then say WATER or TOUCHED depending if they have a ship there or not. Once one
opponent touched all the ship they must say SUNK. The winner is the one who
guesses all the ships first or the one that finishes with more ships without
sinking.
Why is this visual organizer helpful? this visual organizer helped us to introduce the coordinates
topic in class in a more ludic way. Apart from that,
students could really feel the need of use English language
to communicate. When we finished that game, it was much easier to transfer that
to a coordinate grid.

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Grade: 4th grade.
Topic: Circus project.
Type of visual organizer: K.W.L Chart.
Description: students were asked to write some ideas about what they already knew about the topic, what they wanted to know and what they have learned.
Why is the visual organizer helpful?
It is helpful because students write their own ideas and they can share them with the other classmates. In addition, they write their own curiosities without seeing the other ones. At the end, they reflect on their learning process.

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Mario Sánchez Maciá

Escola Pia Igualada

2nd grade Secondary School

Mass, volume and density

Conceptual Map

How to summarise the main concepts of the lesson in a conceptual map. I like that my students can see the main concept of the lesson just with a fast view. Not too much information, clear and easy to remember.

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Grade: 4th ESO
Topic: The cell
Type of graphic organiser:
Concept map
Description of the activity:
Students were asked to do a concept map at the beginning of the unit, like an initial activity, using some words the teacher has given. Then, we make the unit and at the end they check their concept map and correct it if it is necessary, like a final task.
Justification:
The concept map used at the beginning of the lesson shows if the student has initial knowledges about the topic. Used at the end of the unit, allows students to be conscious about their progress and the difference between the first at the end, their progress.Also, the concept map it's a great tool because organize the concepts, the meanings, gives a general vision of the topic.

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Daniel Ponce Fort - Institut de Masquefa

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Daniel Ponce Fort - Institut de Masquefa

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Grade: 4th grade secondary school
Topic: The cell. (Biology)
Type of visual organizer: Conceptual map
Description: After we end working with all these concepts we encourage the students to organize what we have learnt. Moreover, they have to record an audio which supports and explains their activity. Also, to do this easier, enjoyable and enriching, we do this activity in pairs.
To conclude the activity, they have to evaluate their own work in a rubric.
By using this methodology we train speaking, visuals and team work, while we learn the cell content.

Why is this visual organizer helpful?
This visual organizer is helpful to organize and link basic but important concepts. It also provides a different input, and an excuse to do team work, thus, allowing to work those concepts in a less tedious way.

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Escola Josep Orriols i Roca. Griselda Aragay Camprodon 

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Escola Josep Orriols i Roca. Griselda Aragay Camprodon 

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Grade: 5th grade
Topic: Fungi (Science)
Type of visual organizer: Mind Map
Description of the activity:
Students fill the mind map with the words given in order to review the previous knowledge and introduce the new topic.
Why is this visual organizer helpful?
A mind map is a tool that can be used to organize and group information about a topic. We write down the topic in the centre and on the branches emerging from the middle we add more information. It helps classifying, summarizing and understanding information.

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Grade: 1st ESO

Topic: Any topic

Type of visual organizer: Thought routine

Description of the activity: The unit begins and ends with this activity. The students have to think 3 ideas, 2 questions and 1 reflection about the topic in order to see their previous knowledge. At the end of the unit is done again to see what they have learned.

Why is this visual organizer helpful?: Students reflect on what they knew at the beginning and what they have learned during the unit. It also serves to ask new questions, new things to learn.

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Grade: 1r ESO
Topic: Warm-up (PE)
Type of visual organizer: conceptual map.
Description of the activity and justification: This is a way to put the main concepts of the warm-up in a conceptual map. It is easy for children to have a fast view of the most important aspects of the lesson. They can see that the warm-up has two important parts, and each part has diferents steps. Students can learn specific vocabulary in English.

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Clàudia Pons, Sandra Roca i Núria Mullerat - Escola Ramon Castelltort i Miralda

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Clàudia Pons, Sandra Roca i Núria Mullerat - Escola Ramon Castelltort i Miralda

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G rade: 5th and 6th grade
Topic: Science - Habitats and Ecosystems
Type of graphic organiser: mind map
Description of the activity: it's a warm up activity to do at the beginning of the class with the purpose of refreshing the most important concepts about the topic. We could revise it every class once per week in different ways: doing it all together at the board, as a puzzle in groups, as an individual activity at the notebook, etc. Always using same colours and shapes to help them remember vocabulary and concepts.
Justification of your choice: it is very helpful and visual to organize the information. As we would repeat it every week in different ways it helps the different kinds of thinking and memorizing vocabulary.

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Jordi Rabell Tarafa - Institut de Masquefa

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Jordi Rabell Tarafa - Institut de Masquefa

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Grade: 4th Eso
Topic: History (II World War)
Type of visual organizer: Conceptual map
Description of the activity: Students have the conceptual map in blank, and, following the instructions of the teacher, or a video, they must write the two sides of the war, and their leaderships.
Why is this visual organizer helpful? It's esay to introduce the II World War, and the main contendants, and the leadersheaps we must know.

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Grade: 2nd ESO
Topic: Victorian times
Type of graphic organizer: timeline
Description of the activity: students have an empty timeline and the images of historical events, separately. In groups, they have to cut the images and paste them in the timeline in the correct order. At the end, they have to write the year when each event took place.
Justification: Student are doing a project called Now and Then; schools throughout history. As the first schools started in Victorian's time, students begin the project doing this timeline. This graphic organizer helps the teacher to introduce past tense and, at the same time, helps students settle Victorian times in history in a visual, understandable and memorable way but also building up their own knowledge.

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Grade: 1st ESO
Topic: Technological process
Type visual organizer: Conceptual map
Description of the activity:
In the 1st of ESO, in the subject of technology we make a little construction following the steps indicated. We introduce the topic with this conceptual map.
Justification: This conceptual map help students to organise the tasks they have to do to have a successful achievement.

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Grade: 2nd ESO
Topic: Victorian times
Type of graphic organizer: timeline
Description of the activity: students have an empty timeline and the images of historical events, separately. In groups, they have to cut the images and paste them in the timeline in the correct order. At the end, they have to write the year when each event took place.
Justification: Student are doing a project called Now and Then; schools throughout history. As the first schools started in Victorian's time, students begin the project doing this timeline. This graphic organizer helps the teacher to introduce past tense and, at the same time, helps students settle Victorian times in history in a visual, understandable and memorable way but also building up their own knowledge.

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CEIP JOSEP ORRIOLS I ROCA Lourdes Cancho 

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CEIP JOSEP ORRIOLS I ROCA Lourdes Cancho 

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Grade: 4th primary
Topic: Chemical reactions
Type of visual organizer: Storyboard/ Step by step chart.
Description of the activity:
Student's, through an experiment, make a hypothesis about what happens when baking soda and vinegar are mixed together. While  carrying out the experiment, they observe and check.
Why are  these  visual organizers helpful?
This adapted storyboard is engaging and visually appealing graphic organizer (very helpful to summarize all the activity)  The step by step chart is a very handy tool since children get clear  directions to carry out an experiment or at the end; when describing what has happened. I prefer  when children can write the steps as well as drawing them.

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Grade: 2nd grade Secondary School
Topic: English language
Type visual organizer: story map
Justification: students are learning how to use the past tenses (past continuous & past simple), so in pairs they must write a nice fictional story. Before they start writing, students must fill in the story board as a brainstorming activity. They need to come up with the characters, the setting where the story will take place, the problem that the characters will tackle throughout the story and a possible solution. This introductory activity helps students organize and plan their ideas before they write the actual story.

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Grade: 1st ESO
Topic: Core concepts on any topic related to Social Sciences
Type of visual organiser: Vocabulary graphic organizer
Description of the activity: The students are given this visual organizer in order to write down the core concepts to understand the topic given. After writing the word in the middle of the template, they are expected to fill in the following information:
1.What is it? (write a definition of the word)
2.Example (use this word in a sentence)
3.A similar word (write a synonym of the word)
4.Picture (draw a picture or post an image)
Why is this visual organizer helpful?: When introducing the core concepts on any subject it is very important for the students to acquire them correctly. Thus, the learning process may take off. This visual organizer allows the students to create a picture dictionary so they can fully comprehend each concept.

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Institut de Masquefa. Vicent Vidal Llopis

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Institut de Masquefa. Vicent Vidal Llopis

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Grade: 2nd of Batxillerat.

Topic: Economy.

Type visual organiser: Sequence chart.

Description: Students are asked to order a serie of accounting events that happen again and again in the same order in a regular economic exercise (a year).

Why is this visual organiser helpful?: To help students organise and sequence several steps of the economic account cycle. First of all, students have to identify the steps in the process and then, using a sequence chart, arrange these steps in sequential order.

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Grade: 2nd Grade ESO
Topic: scientific method
Typer visual organiser: Sequence Diagrams.
Description:
I encourage my students to fill a sequence diagram about scientific method. First, we talk about the scientific method's steps in the class, finally they draw a sequence diagram with all steps, using graphics and a short descripcion.
Why is this visual organizer helpful?
I use to do this execise beacause sequence diagrams help the students to remember concepts and put in order their steps.
It use to be a helpful activity to introduce the scientific method in 2n grade.

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Grade: 5 Primary
Topic: SUMMEM
Type visual organizer: KWL chart
Description:
Students must show their prior knowledge or experience in the first column. Once they finish they must fill the next column, generate in groups a list of questions about what they want to know. Finally, after the end of the IA they answer all the questions and generate new knowledge.
Why is this visual organizer helpful?:
To Help students organize the previous knowledge and the new one. They are able to see their own process.

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1. Grade: 4th Grade ESO

2. Topic: FUNCTIONS

3. Typer visual organiser: Mind Map

4. Description of the activity:

1. After watching the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zfJImNEEas,

2. Students fill the map with the specific vocabulary which we studied in the unit : GRAPH, SLOPE, LINE, X-COORDINATE, Y-COORDINATE,ORIGIN, INCREASING, DECREASING, UP, DOWN, AFFINE, LINEAR...

5. Why is this visual organizer helpful? This visual organizer is helpful to organize and group information about the topic. We also use it to learn specific function vocabulary.

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ESCOLA RAMON CASTELLTORT - Sandra Roca Martí

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ESCOLA RAMON CASTELLTORT - Sandra Roca Martí

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1. Grade: 5th Primary
2. Topic: Ecosystems
3. Typer visual organiser: Mind map

4. Description of the activity: We  use this mind map to review all the differents types of habitats we've been working. We share it before each group start with an Habitat Presentation.
5.Why is this visual organizer helpful? It is useful because it help them to remember the different habitats and how to write them.