Abstract: The system and method for teaching entity-relationship modeling employ graphical organizer templates to systematically analyze the data storage requirements of an organization. The student is taught to apply the templates in logical order, from recognizing the organization's business rules and constraints on those rules, through classification of entities, the relationships between entities, distributive aspects of the relationships, attributes of the entities, identifying required and optional entities, and the cardinality of the relationships. The templates place the information in a graphical or chart form, which may then be easily translated into the formal symbolism of an entity-relationship diagram.