Kidspiration+and+Inspiration+Ideas


 * From: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/conceptmap/50uses.html

50 Uses for Inspiration® and KidspirationTM**
 * 1) Assist students in organizing information
 * 2) Assist teachers in planning lessons/units/themes
 * 3) Illustrate school's goals or plan for Parent-Teacher Organization
 * 4) Illustrate instructional goal links to testing expectations
 * 5) To show what each grade will be teaching and how units fit into the larger picture of curriculum for the whole school
 * 6) Assess student learning
 * 7) Show integration of different topics across the curriculum for a unit, lesson, or long-range plan
 * 8) Present difficult material in a step by step manner
 * 9) Plot summaries
 * 10) Create cause/effect/solution diagrams to resolve social issues within the classroom
 * 11) Book design elements
 * 12) Illustrate digestive system
 * 13) Local government diagram
 * 14) Defining new terms
 * 15) Introducing a new concept
 * 16) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Note-taking organizer
 * 17) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Detailed processes (how to add polynomials etc.)
 * 18) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Creating storyboards for Powerpoint and Hyperstudio presentations
 * 19) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Comparison activities
 * 20) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Historical cause and effect
 * 21) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Cycles (recycle, weather, etc.)
 * 22) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">To construct a food chain
 * 23) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Map of where items are stored in desk, trapper, or locker
 * 24) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Library orientation
 * 25) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Language Arts - character descriptions, plot movement, action that leads to the climax
 * 26) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Math-to teach algorithms (especially division)
 * 27) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Math-problem solving because it is non-linear
 * 28) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Create instructions for games
 * 29) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Create picture charts that students can follow if they are communication impaired. Kids can follow picture symbols such as the symbols found on the Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker software.
 * 30) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Help study for a test.
 * 31) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Classroom organization chart with associated responsibilities
 * 32) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">How to/step by step for learning new software
 * 33) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Developing a course or workshop
 * 34) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Planning a WebQuest
 * 35) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Documenting job responsibilities
 * 36) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Planning a Web site
 * 37) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Personal professional goals
 * 38) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Concept maps to send home to parents to help explain a unit so they can help their children study/review
 * 39) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Assist cooperative groups in defining projects and dividing job responsibilities.
 * 40) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Faculty/district - responsibilities of committees
 * 41) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Flow charts for behavior plans for either the classroom or a specific student
 * 42) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Similarities between different units through the use of the same structure in the graphic organizer.
 * 43) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">A tool for students to identify when they do not understand information and identify the where the breakdown is in their comprehension.
 * 44) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">To add more depth in a compare/contrast lesson, for example, identifying the important variables by color-coding or other visual element, and then deciding if the variable is the same or different in the two objects of study.
 * 45) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Showing relationships.
 * 46) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Procedures to follow during an emergency drill such as a fire or storm drill;
 * 47) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Lab procedure explanation
 * 48) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">To present lab conclusions and highlight important concepts (especially prior to completing a written explanation)
 * 49) <span style="color: #a70c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">In foreign language classes create an organizer that shows the English word on one side and the foreign language word equivalent on the other side with pictures as hints.
 * 50) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">When studying a poem, in the center concept list the name of the poem and the connecting lines contain phrases from the poem. The subconcept explains the words in the phrase and the literary technique used such as personification.