Causal map

Imagine you are playing with toy cars and building a race track. You put a lot of pieces together to make it look cool, but you also want the cars to race around it. This means you have to figure out how the pieces fit together and make the cars move.

A causal map is like building a race track for your toys, but instead of cars, it shows how different things in the world are connected and how they affect each other.

Imagine you want to build a causal map about the weather. You would start with the different elements that make up the weather, like sun, clouds, wind, and rain. Then, you would figure out how they all work together to create different types of weather. For example, if the sun shines longer, the air gets warmer. When the air gets warmer, it rises up and creates clouds. Then, when there's too much moisture in the air, the clouds get too heavy and rain falls.

Each piece of your causal map will be connected to other pieces to show how they influence each other. Like in the weather map, if the sun doesn't shine enough, the air stays cool, and the clouds don't form as easily. Then there won't be any rain.

Causal maps can help us understand how different things in the world are connected, and how changes in one thing can affect many others. They're often used in science, business, and government to help make plans and solve problems.