The Study Of Using Mind Mapping In Geography Teaching To Promote The Geography Learning

A Mind Mapping is a thinking tool, a way to specify radioactive thinking, it canuse words and images to outline the ideas in the brain and make people’s thinkingvisible and explicit. The Mind Mapping can effectively help memory and thinking, letpeople develop their full potential while they are in thinking and memorizing.Discussion on the effects of using Mind Mapping on students geography learning atsenior high school has certain theoretical and practical significance. Therefore, theauthor carries on the applied research on Mind Mapping in senior high schoolgeography teaching and seeks efficient way to promote geographical learning on highschool students.Based on the research background and significance, this paper introduces thestudies on Mind Mapping at home and abroad, describes characteristics andtheoretical basis of Mind Mapping. In the main part of it, the value of Mind Mappingin the teaching and learning of geography is elaborated in detail. Two classes in seniorgrade one at Qingxin No.3Middle School are as the experimental subjects on thisbasis. The author draws relevant conclusions, puts forward the insufficient problemsand future research directions through the statistic and analysis on the results of thisstudy which carried out in these two classes.The studies show that using Mind Mapping in high school geography teachingcan express the knowledge vividly, it can not only stimulate students’ learning interestand enthusiasm, but also enable the students to construct the knowledge significantly; and it can clearly show the structure of the geographical knowledge as well as enablestudents to better grasp the knowledge to enhance learning efficiency. And the form ofgroup collaboration Mind Mapping can promote students’ group interactive learning.