Concepts Concepts are the categories we use to cluster information.
Concepts organize specific information under one label.
They are building blocks and links between facts and generalizations. The accomplishments of Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, and Jane Long are facts. Together, these people may be categorized as heroes, a concept. To understand a generalization students first must understand its component concepts. The student who does not know the meaning of two concepts, community and interdependence, can not understand the generalization.