Graphic organizers can be used across various curriculum areas to help students in grades 3-12 understand relationships between concepts and take ownership of information by creating visual representations. They are useful tools for teaching critical thinking skills like analyzing, classifying, comparing, planning and justifying. The document recommends putting graphic organizers in the hands of students and using them to stress relationships between concepts, ask good questions, and analyze, classify, compare, diagnose, plan, reorganize, predict, rank, justify and evaluate. Resources for finding and creating graphic organizers are provided.