Graphic organizers are visual tools that help students actively organize and structure information. They can be used to sequence events, compare and contrast ideas, classify information, and show relationships. Common types include webs, charts, trees, and chains. Graphic organizers compress information, focus learning, and make complex ideas easier to understand. They guide students' research by focusing their purpose and showing what information has been collected and what is still missing. Overall, graphic organizers promote higher-order thinking by engaging students in active representation of key concepts and skills.

1. Graphic Organizers as Thinking
Technology
By: Geneve Loraine D. Cruz
BSEd III- B

2. Why Graphic Organizers?
What do effective educators had to learn to enhance students
understanding and retention of lessons taken in class?
Learning to think is an essential skill needed in education today.
Often educators use teaching methods where students are passive
learners. Difficulty arises when students must make meaning out
information taken from a book, video , or a lecture. When students
interact with content, it is important that they actively construct
meaning.

3. Graphic Organizers
Are mental maps that involve
students in active thinking through
representation of key skills such as
sequencing, comparing and
contrasting, and classifying. (Burke
129)

4. What are the uses of Graphic organizers?
Graphic
organizers
Help students
sequence
information
Help students
organize their
thoughts in a logical
way
Help students
cluster and
brainstorm ideas
Help students
determine cause-
effect relationship
Help students
organize information
visually
Help students
organize
Help students
analyze and
prioritized
information Help students
evaluate criteria for
decision making

5. Types Uses Examples
Star/ Web Use to show definitions, attributes, examples
and brainstorming.
Fishbone Map, Spider Web
Chart/ Matrix Use to show attributes, comparing, and
contrasting and evaluating.
T-Chart, Venn Diagram, Compare- contrast Matrix,
PMI, Continuum Scale, Ranking, KWLH,
Synectics
Tree/ Map Use to show classifications, pedigrees,
analysis of structures, attributes, examples
and brainstorming.
Network Tree, cerebral Chart, Questions,
Categories, Hypothesis Matrix.
Chain Use to show processes, sequences, causes
and effects, and chronology.
Series of events Chain, Bridging Snapshots,
Human Interactions, Outline, Time Sequence
Pattern.
Sketch Use to show physical Structures,
descriptions of places, spatial relationships,
concrete objects and visual images.
Types, Uses, and Examples of
Graphic Organizers

6. And Graphic organizers take on
many different looks……

7. RESULT
Detail
Detail
FISHBONE MAP
It is use to show the interaction
of a complex event or complex
phenomenon.

8. Topic
Concept
Theme
Detail
SPIDER MAP
Is used to describe a central idea: a thing,
process, concept or proposition.

9. Sounds
Like
Looks Like
T- chart
It is used to analyze
similarities and
differences between
two things(people,
places, events, ideas,
etc.

10. Venn Diagram
It is used to analyze similarities
and differences between two
things(people, places, events,
ideas, etc. By placing individual
characteristics in either the
left or right sections, and similar
Common characteristics within
the overlapping section.

11. Attitude 1
Attitude 2
Attitude 3
Name 1 Name 2
Compare- Contrast Matrix
It is used to analyze
similarities and
differences between
two things.
Key frame questions:
What are being
compared?
How are they similar?
How are they different?

12. P+
M-
I?
PMI
It is use to show positive, negative, and interesting
attributes of a subject, concept, topic, solution, etc. ,
in order to determine the nature of the outcome and
whether it will be worth continuing or not.

13. LOW HIGH
Continuum Scale
1
2
3
Ranking
Is use for time lines
showing historical events
or ages etc.
Is use when prioritizing elements
From most important to least
Important; relative position or
standing, a series of things or
persons; or an orderly
arrangement.

14. Is use to show how a series
of events.
Is use to see changes over time,
reveal the sequence of step-by
-step methods, illustrate
complex processes and show
cause and effect.

15. Help the students activate prior
knowledge. It is a group activity
that serves as a model for
active thinking during reading.
Provides an approach to
creative thinking that depends
on looking at.

16. It is use to show causal
information or hierarchy or
branching procedures.
Use hierarchies, yet tend
to be more free form

17. Topic
Concept
Theme
Web
Is use to list facts,
definitions,
attributes,
examples, related to
a single topic,
concept or theme.
Allows you to
identify the three
basic components
of most hypothesis.

18. Good? Bad?
1
2
3
1
2
3
Questions
Hypothesizing is used to list a set of
questions.
Hypothesize Graphic Organizer

19. 1 2 3 4
Categories
Hypothesize Graphic Organizer

20. Problem/Solution Outline

21. Graphical Organizers convert complex and messy information
collections into meaningful displays.
 They compress.
 They focus.
 They make interpretation, understanding and insight much easier.
Graphical Organizers help keep students plan their research
forays.
 They guide the gathering.
 They focus purpose.
 They show what is gained.
 They show what is still missing.
Graphical Organizers sometimes act like mind maps.
 They point to the destination.
 They identify related sites and sights.

22. • It targets the HOTS or the
Higher Order Thinking skills of
the students.

23. References:
http://english.tyhs.edu.tw/xoops/html/tyhs/teach_sour
ce96/01.pdf
http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/curriculum-
development/kla/pshe/references-and-
resources/economics/use_of_graphic_organizers.pdf
http://www.fno.org/oct97/picture.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xsCE4kkb0

24. Thank You!
Geneve Loraine D. Cruz
BSEd III- B