This is a sample of concept map template or concept diagram that you can use as reference to create your own. A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. It is important to visualize scattered ideas into a map and connecting those into more objective ideas. Concept maps may be used by instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and others to organize and structure knowledge.

A concept map basically represents all of those ideas and information as boxes or circles, which it connects with labeled arrows. It could be in a downward-branching hierarchical structure or in free-form maps. The relationship between concepts can be articulated in linking phrases such as “causes”, “requires”, “such as” or “contributes to”.

Concept mapping was developed by the professor of education Joseph D. Novak and his research team at Cornell University in the 1970s as a means of representing the emerging science knowledge of students. By writing all ideas into the paper, it should make you don’t forget anything before your filtering them to get more objective about your ideas.

As mentioned before, this concept map template is a rough template. You can use it to start your own concept map if you prefer to use Microsoft Word or Google Docs instead of using other sophisticated application.

And like writing in the paper, you can add, delete, edit words etc. You still need to adjust its size to your notebook size if you want to insert it into your notebook.

Here are those Concept Map Templates

  Concept Map Template 1 (24.0 KiB, 170 hits)

  Concept Map Template 2 (14.0 KiB, 152 hits)