Free Printable Brace Map

A blank brace map: the whole object on the left, a brace out to its main parts, and a smaller brace from each part to its own parts.

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Use it withScience PrintablesLabeled science diagrams of cells, plants, the body and more: real wholes to break into parts.
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About the brace map

A brace map shows whole and part relationships. Students write a physical object on the left, its major parts beside the large brace, and the smaller parts of each one beside the small braces.

It suits science (the parts of a plant, a cell, or the human body), social studies (the branches of government), and reading (the parts of a book). Choose 3 or 4 parts; the filled-in example breaks down a bicycle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Breaking a physical object into its parts and subparts. It helps students see how the pieces of something fit together.
A brace map is about parts of one thing (a seat is part of a bicycle). A tree map is about kinds or groups (a robin is a kind of bird).
No. Thinking Maps is a registered trademark of Thinking Maps, Inc., which sells the official program and teacher training. These are free blank templates in the same eight shapes, under the names teachers use for them.