Concept Map

For this concept map I chose the topic of field hockey. I chose this because field hockey has been a big part of my life and I have learned so many things from it. I played all throughout high school and I am currently starting a field hockey club at RWU. I was interested to see all the ideas I associated with field hockey and how they all connected. While making this map I had a hard time not making it into a mind map. My first draft came out to be very similar to a mind map with a lot of confusing lines. To help solve this problem I moved the topic to the top of the page instead of the center, so I had more room to connect the ideas. I also thought it made more sense to use "team" as a subcategory and have all of my ideas split off from there. I still had a hard time making it clear how these ideas connected, so I wrote words on the connecting lines to help explain what idea it lead to next. I also used symbols, like an equals sign and arrows. There were a couple key words that had the same connecting words like winning  and team that really visually helped make it clear what makes a team and the same qualities that make a team also lead to winning.