How To Create Recommended Concept Maps

How to create a concept map. (Rawpixel-Freepik image)

YOGYAKARTA - Concept maps are usually needed to help students learn learning materials. How to make concept maps is basically quite easy, with a note that they already understand the concept of material to be mapped.

You can listen to how to create concept maps in the article below, complete with definitions, types, and examples.

In Sjaeful Anwar's book Method for the Development of the Four Steps Teaching Material Development (4STMD), the concept map is one of the recommended methods for students to understand and remember a number of new materials.

With a good concept map method, students can learn or remember a material easily and longer.

There are several easy steps to create a concept map. Below are the steps quoted from the book Map of Concepts on Easy Ways to Learn History (2021) by Sayyidah:

Quoted from the book Learning for Archipelago Regions (2012) by Dr. Metilistina Sasinggala, M.Si, concept maps can be made into several types or forms, including the following:

In the network tree concept map, the basic ideas are presented in the fourth square, while several other words are connected by the connecting line. The words on the connecting line outline the relationship between the concept of one with another.

Maps of network tree concepts are suitable to describe concepts that are causal in nature, a hierarchy, a branched procedure and terms that have links to clarify relationships.

Maps of the concept of chain of events usually serve to provide a sequence of events, steps in a procedure, or stages in a process.

Maps of the concept of chain events are suitable for describing the stages of a process, steps in a procedure and a sequence of events.

The cycle concept map does not produce a final result. The final result on the chain is connected back to the initial events, so that a cycle or turnover is formed.

To produce a group of recurring results, the cycle concept map is suitable for a series of interacting events.

Maps of the concept of spiders can be used for bulk. In general, they are used to describe things that are not in accordance with the hierarchy, unless they are in a category, incommensurate categories and results of opinion.

Reporting from the Kemdikbud page, below are two examples of drafting concept maps for certain topics.

This Astronaut concept map describes several things related to astronauts, and then retailed. For example, astronauts must have expertise. This skill is shared in several images that are dropped, such as swimming, astronomy, to foreign languages.

In this concept map, describe what is part of the organization and architecture contained in a computer.

Instead of making a list of ordinary writings, the image of a concept map like this is more interesting to read so that it is easier to memorize.

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