Seeing Relationships: Using Spatial Thinking to Teach Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies

Autor/in	Newcombe, Nora S.
Titel	Seeing Relationships: Using Spatial Thinking to Teach Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies
Quelle	In: American Educator, 37 (2013) 1, S.26-31 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-432X
Schlagwörter	Spatial Ability; Visual Arts; Social Studies; Educational Strategies; Visualization; Teaching Methods; Educational Practices; Schematic Studies; Mathematics Instruction; Science Instruction; Gender Differences; Instructional Improvement; Student Improvement; Thinking Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Optische Gestaltung; Gemeinschaftskunde; Lehrstrategie; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungspraxis; Schematheorie; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Geschlechterkonflikt; Unterrichtsqualität; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	The author discusses four specific strategies for enhancing and supporting the spatial aspects of the science, mathematics, and social studies curricula. However, these four strategies are examples of what can be done, not an exhaustive list. The overarching concept is to embrace the spatial visualizations used for discovery and communication in these subject areas, helping students learn to read, discuss, and even create these visualizations. Doing so will aid the transmission of content and the future learning of new content, and the meta-analysis indicates it will probably act as a spatial skills training of its own. Spatial ability can be improved both inside and outside the classroom, as well as by instruction in other subject areas, notably the visual arts. Spatializing the curriculum by including and explicitly teaching the spatial symbol systems that lie at the heart of science, mathematics, and social studies is an achievable and worthwhile goal. (Contains 4 figures and 32 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10