Students mindmap the news each morning at J. H. House Elementary School. As they listen to a daily 10 minute broadcast of the news, students take notes with a combination of pictures and text. Here is a sample of one of Shelby's mindmaps. Shelby is in the third grade.
Dear Shelby, my name is Christina and I am an eleventh grader in Mr. Richardson's journalism class. I was looking at your weblog, and it sounds like you are a very mature writer. I also like how you broke everything down into sections and then drew a picture for each one. The Columbia is a topic that we were discussing in my journalism class!
Posted by: christinak | February 28, 2003 at 07:55 PM