Lesson plan
Spatial Thinking and Its Development
GiantMapActivities
Description
This powerpoint explains the age-related progression of spatial thinking skills of students from ages 3 to high school. The skills relate to identity and location, magnitude, distance and direction, symbols, reference frames, and overlays of information.Author
National Geographic Society Education Foundation
National Geographic Society Education Foundation
Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information2: How to use mental maps (a person's internalized picture of a part of Earth's surface) to organize information about people places, and environments
3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people places, and environments on Earth's surface