What is Concept Mapping?

• One of 3 Spatial Strategies (Frames type I & II are the other 2)
  
• "…a way of graphically displaying concepts and relationships between or among concepts." (West, Farmer, & Wolf, 1991)
  
• Concepts are placed on a page: connections between/among concepts are represented by the spaces and lines between them.

Terminology

Several different terms used:

• Semantic Mapping
• Graphic Organizers
• Information Mapping
• Networking

There are Three Main Types of Concept Maps:

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• Spider Map
  
  
• Chain Map
  
• Hierarchical Map

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