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Activity #1: Concept Mapping
Background Information
A concept map is a useful tool to show meaningful relationships that exist between ideas, objects or other items. They can be used to help clarify and to help gain greater understanding about a particular concept.
Concept maps can be very hierarchical in form, but try to avoid the "top-down" format. Instead, look for other layouts such as a circle, a wheel with spokes, or a web. Each part of the map should show a relationship to the next part of the map.
1. Using the two words uranium and environment as linked base words, develop one to three concept maps. Take a minute to brainstorm ideas for the concept maps, writing down the words as you gather ideas. You may want to group the ideas, then apply them to the concept map. Try to have at least ten interrelated ideas.
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2. Share your map with others (in your class). Discuss how the ideas can be rearranged to show varying relationships (ie. negative vs. positive).
3. Consider uranium (mining) and the environment. Write a one page summary describing how you would feel if it was discovered your neighborhood had been built on a dump for radioactive waste. Think about the changes in your life that may result 10, 20 or 50 years from now and what alternatives would exist for your family.
Evaluation
1. Follow one path on the map and break each step into five or six points. Each should relate and lead to the next part of the map. Relationships should be evident.
2. Completed summaries should be handed in for evaluation of content.
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