One of BeED’s most powerful features is the Lesson Builder’s interactive maps. By creatively using maps, points and maplinks, you can create engaging lessons to suit any pedagogy.
Click through the slides below for some ideas on using maps to organize different types of lessons.
Start using interactive mapping to engage your students with these four tips below:
Tip 1: Use pedagogical Map Templates from BeED
For busy teachers, BeED has prepared several Map Templates based on several pedagogies such as inquiry based learning, Bloom’s Taxonomy, flipped classroom and more. You can download these Map Templates here.
Tip 2: Find Map images online
You can also use images found online as Lesson maps as long as you attribute the source accordingly. Check out this guide to images and copyright for your lessons.
Tip 3: Design your own Maps
Can’t find an image that suits your needs? Want to try something out of the box? Make use of simple image editing software to design your own Map images. Some of our Academic Team’s favourite free resources include
- Google Slides: Simple way to create slides for use as learning maps.
- Canva: Make use of thousands of free templates to edit your map images.
- Flaticon: Millions of customisable icons that you can use when designing your maps in another software.
Tip 4: Optimize Map Layout for Learners
If most of your Learners use BeED on the mobile app, use map images in portrait orientation. And if they mostly use BeED through a web browser, use map images in landscape orientation.