Submitted by Joseph Kerski on 11 June 2012 – 10:13am Often on lists and blogs including teachspatial.org over the years…
Making Space
Abstract: (from ERIC abstract): This book deals with the development of the child’s notion about space. The authors’ investigations have…
: Given this depiction of some of the operations of spatial thinking in geoscience, we can characterize spatial thinking as…
: Spatial thinking serves three purposes. It has (1) a descriptive function, capturing, preserving, and conveying the appearances of and…
: The basis for spatial thinking is the structure of space and the operations that we can perform on and…
: Although vision dominates the process and language of spatial thinking for most people, spatial thinking is not restricted to…
…we can order component tasks of spatial thinking in terms of relative difficulty. The first and easiest step is extracting…
: It is the concept of space that makes spatial thinking a distinctive form of thinking. By understanding the meanings…
: To think spatially entails knowing about (1) space—for example, the relationships among units of measurement (e.g., kilometers versus miles),…