Updated on March 10, 2017
These websites have free interactive and printable graphic organizers to help kids and students make sense of information in all subject areas and grade levels. Printable organizers are useful for helping kids construct meaning from the information they read, as well as for preparing their thoughts prior to a writing assignment. Online interactive organizers enable students to work on a project in groups, manipulating concepts and categorizing content. The interactive organizers include some mind mapping tools.
SageModeler is a free interactive graphic design tool students can use to diagram the structure of a system, runs simulations and much more. Use the drag-and-drop features to also create static equilibrium or time-based dynamic models. Students can add data…
Interactive Graphic Organizer – Text2MindMap offers a quick, simple approach to creating a visual mind map from a set of organized words. Select colors and line thickness. Then click “draw the map”. Then you can adjust the placement of the…
TeachersPayTeachers has a huge selection of 2000 free printable graphic organizers for writing, reading, history, and science for all grade levels. Excellent navigation tools help teachers and homeschooling parents drill down to the type of organizer you need. You’ll also…
WiseMapping is a free interactive graphic organizer, a mind mapping or concept mapping tool. The toolbar along the top makes it easy to organize ideas and regroup them according to your needs. Change colors, add links, notes, and icons to…
Freeology offers about 100 downloadable PDF-formatted printable graphic organizers for a wide variety of uses. They include reading and writing organizers, KWL, venn diagrams, concept mapping, and Cornell notes. There are also several poetry writing tools.
Pinball is a set of super simple mind mapping tools and interactive graphic organizers designed for kids, complete with sound effects. The options include Dot-Dash, for firing out ideas; Drop Zone, for making quick decisions; Snap Shot, for playing with…
This interactive graphic organizer offers many diagramming options for teacher and student use. They include flowcharts, database diagrams, and network design – elements that are particularly useful in computer science. Cacoo also offers venn diagrams and concept mapping tools that…
This collection printable graphic organizers is useful for reading comprehension, concept analysis, and for planning writing across subject areas. For all subjects, there are organizers for cause and effect, comparison and contrast, chain of events, cycle of events, hierarchy, and…
Interactive Graphic Organizer – Bubbl.us is a simple web-based mind-mapping application that lets you brainstorm, share your work online, embed it in your blog or website, email it, or save it as an image. The free version allows students and…
Interactive Graphic Organizer – The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is Open Source downloadable mind mapping software based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning…
Have Fun Teaching has more than 50 printable graphic organizers for cause and effect, compare and contrast, fact and opinion, KWL, and KWHL. Other include note taking and summarizing, predict and infer, sequencing, and story elements.
These printable graphic organizers from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will help children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. They include organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. You have permission to…
Mindomo is a web-based mind mapping interactive graphic organizer with tools for both teacher and student use. For teachers, there are tips for classroom use. and an Assignment Guide. Making mind maps with Mindomo is easy and intuitive, and their…
TeAchnology offers dozens of free printable graphic organizers for lesson planning, KWL. story mapping, character analysis, vocabulary and Venn diagrams. The PDF organizers listed on the page are free. TeAchology offers other packages of organizers on their site for a…
Freemind is a free downloadable interactive graphic organizer and mind-mapping tool written in Java. There are versions compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux. Freemind has the flexibility to make your mind map simple or complex, plain jane, or as colorful…