With this teaching tool, the authors describe and illustrate how to use visual mapping to enhance thinking skills in the classroom, its uses and approaches, how it can benefit students, drawing techniques that can be used to create symbols, and the use of symbols with templates, which are presented in fill-in reproducible versions. They also provide an alphabetical 56-page collection of symbols and how they correspond to ideas and examples of visual maps, such as outlines drawn visually. Marguiles and Valenza are visual facilitators who work with schools and corporations in workshops around the world. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)