1.+Introduction

 ** Concept Map **   The application of cooperative learning to classroom teaching finds its roots in the 1970’s when Israel and the United States began to design and study cooperative learning models for classroom context. (Kagan, S. 1992). Now cooperative and group learning is applied in almost school content area and increasingly in college and university context all over the world (Johnson and Johnson, 1989), and is claimed to be an effective teaching method. It generally asserted that group learning and cooperative learning is the best option for all students because it emphasizes active interaction on students of diverse abilities and background (Nelson, Gallagher, and Coleman, 1993).   A concept map is a way of representing relationships between ideas, images, or words, in the same way that a sentence diagram represents the grammar of sentence. A concept map consists of nodes or cells that contain a concept, item, or questions and links. The group chooses to create a concept map on basketball. Bsketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or shooting a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. The group also chooses to create a concept map of basketball on the following reasons: 1. Basketball is an international sport and is very well appreciated by the people around the world. 2. Each of the member has knowledge of what basketball is all about. 3. The group agreed that indeed basketball is a very good concept in propagating the do's and dont's of basketball as basketball is a sport which most Filipinos were engaged in.