Concept maps work best when you tailor them to how you learn: add pictures if you're visual, focus on text if you prefer reading. Put one concept per box and draw connections that show how ideas relate, not just list them.
A question I get a lot from nursing students is how to make concept maps and how to do them. Well. Now, there's a ton of different ways that you can do concept maps in nursing school. Some that are like, have more pictures or visual, more maybe more text on them. It all depends on what your learning style is and how you learn best. So if you are more of a picture visual learner, you are going to want to drop pictures in the boxes. If you are more of like a textbook person, a you like seeing things written out, you are going to want to write out text, text in these boxes. But basically the key thing to know for concept maps is to make it your own, okay? Use it to how you learn best. There's no one right way to do it. Now, when you are making concept maps, this is typically the structure that you will follow. But the key here is that when you are writing concepts in these boxes that you are connecting them together and critically thinking about how these things are related.
