4 Ways Popplet Works For History

A Poppleteer created this complex spiderweb popplet using multimedia to chronicle the iconic style, music and events of the 1960s.

History is too often presented as linear dates to memorize, indexes to dig through, and footnotes to investigate. It doesn’t have to be that way!

Popplet – a powerful, simple tool – helps students, teachers and history buffs transform dense information into creative mind maps and concept diagrams that improve communication and retention. And they look great, too!

Whether it’s a study guide or essay outline, a multimedia family history, a diagram of Medieval Japan, or even just classroom notes, Popplet helps people organize, visualize and retain histories.

Here are four ways Popplet – the simplest mind map software on the market – easily transforms historical content into dynamic and memorable experiences.

1 Timelines

Popplet excels at chronologies, whether it’s a traditional timeline or a non-linear sunburst. For history, Poppleteers build mind maps and concept diagrams (we call them popplets) that:

Make ancient empires or recent history come alive with dramatic multimedia images, text and videos
Link dates to simple visuals for easier understanding and better memorization
Create timelines with cascading diagrams or complex spiderwebs to relate concepts and events.

And Popplet’s flexibility helps people visualize history however they perceive it.

Here’s how one Poppleteer sees it:

This straightforward Civil War popplet shows a simple and efficient timeline.

2 Study Guides and Essay Outlines

Mind maps and concept diagrams are indispensable tools for simplifying, memorizing and outlining even complex subjects. Working with the brain’s associative thought process, popplets create a greater understanding of the relationships between ideas. Plus, they’re easy to make!

Here’s how two Poppleteers connected the dots (the popples!) to study for their exams:

This visual study guide popplet details the Constitution of the United States of America.

This sunburst popplet visualizes the Medieval periods of Japanese history.

3 Collaborative Work

Group projects are a great way to speed a process or accelerate learning. Building a popplet with classmates or teams distributes the workload and lets you share and collaborate on-screen in real time.

This mind map popplet details Greek Mythology for a collaborative homework assignment.

4 Family Trees and Family History

Genealogists rejoice! Popplet’s mind maps and concept maps are perfect for mapping family trees and tracing family histories. Map out the royals or chart your own family lineage with dates, stories, images and videos. Popplet helps you create a traditional tree, a sunburst from a single ancestor or even a spiderweb of family quilts.

This simple popplet traces a basic Tudor bloodline … minus his famous wives.

Does any of this spark an idea for your own history popplet? Try a free demo of Popplet for yourself! Register now to build one free Popplet!