How these pages work.
These web pages are in the form of concept maps, tools for organizing and representing knowledge. Concepts, usually enclosed in boxes, can be events or objects, real or abstract (e.g. "ocean", "pathway", "deep", "process"). Concepts may also consist of a phrase (e.g. "small organic molecules", "heat from the Earth's interior"). Two or more concepts are linked with words describing the relationship (e.g. "Mars is red", "Human Body temperature typically 98.6 degrees"). Here is a simple example.

Some concepts have Icons attached to them. This is to show there is more information available.

By clicking on the icon, one or more choices appear. Selecting one of these choices will load a new web page. Concept Map icons will open new concept maps, movie icons will open a movie, etc. By doing this, one can easily browse through a set of maps.

More information is available on The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How To Construct Them as well as the IHMC Concept Mapping Toolkit.

Why won't the movies play?
The movies require Apple Quicktime™ 3.0 or better to play properly. Quicktime 4.0 is recommended and can be downloaded from the Apple Quicktime website which also has more information if you have any questions.


Quicktime and the Quicktime logo are trademarks used under license.