Incorporation of Graphic Organizers Roxana Williams CED 550 Kelly Ennis

Timeline Students can collect information about a person’s biography and/or accomplishments during his/her life, or write about important events in history and organize it chronologically with the help of a graphic organizer. Students can insert/paste text, pictures, clip art, and even insert sound to their timelines.

Thomas Alva Edison’s Accomplishments Timeline 1860 Weekly Herald 1861 Morse Code & Telegraph 1869 Electric Vote Recorder 1876 Menlo Park Lab 1877 Carbon Telephone Transmitter 1878 Edison Electric Light Company 1879 First Incandescent Light 1880 Edison Illuminating Company

Thomas Alva Edison Timeline 1851 1855 1860 1863 1869 1880 1931

Flowchart Flowcharts can be used by a student to list events that have happened, or might happen, sequentially. Flowcharts are excellent tools that students can use before writing a five paragraph essay. Students could write about the process for making something with the help of a flowchart too.

Topic Flow Chart Supporting Idea 1 Supporting Idea 2 Supporting Idea 3 Supporting Idea 4 Conclusion

KWL Matrix Students write down what they already know about crayons or chocolates for example. They might want to know about how crayons or chocolates are made. Students can do research to learn about the process for making crayons or chocolates on the Internet.

KWL Matrix What I know What I want to learn What I learned Paraffin wax is heated until it melts. Crayon coloring and hardening powder are added to the hot liquid wax. Then it’s poured into hundreds of crayon-shaped holes. When it cools down it solidifies and forms crayons. Crayons are used for coloring. They come in different colors. How are crayons made? What are crayons made of?

Venn Diagram Venn Diagrams can be used when students want to compare two things, people, events, places, or issues. This is a great tool when students need to compare books (for example two fairy tales), characters and endings of stories. Similar information is written in the overlapping circle and information that is different is in the other sections of the circles.

Venn Diagram Sleeping Beauty Snow White Used to make comparisons They both wake up with the kiss of a prince. Sleeping Beauty Fairy godmother is the villain Princesses Snow White Step mother Is the villain