Teachers can tailor the Concept mapping to three difficulty levels to meet students’ needs. 

• Beginner learners (6-7 years old): Give a very clear central idea, model one complete simple map with pictures and words, provide starter branches (like “Family,” “Friends”), and use prompts to help children add one or two connections; keep the action step concrete (e.g., “Say hello to someone new”)
• Advanced learners (8-9 years old): Let children choose a related central topic, encourage pair sharing to add more layers (local and farther connections), require labelling of how things relate (e.g., “helps,” “sends,” “learns from”), and guide them to pick a shared small action with a partner.  
• Expert learners (9-10 years old): Students build maps with multiple levels (people, places, actions, feelings), compare and combine maps in small groups, identify overlapping themes, and co-create a class “big map” with shared action nodes; they also reflect on how their own map changed after hearing others.