Queen's Printer for Ontario
E workshop.on.ca: Effective Instr in Math, K 3: Geometry & Spatial Sense [Pdf]
This 455-page guide outlines and illustrates effective strategies for teaching geometry and related spatial concepts to children in kindergarten through grade 3.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybumps: Learning Activities: Spatial Concepts: Index of Images
An index of images that helps reinforce spatial concepts such as on, in, up, down, over, under, and more.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybumps: Learning Activities: Spatial Concepts: Doghouse
Move animals around the doghouse to examine and discuss spatial relationships such as above, under, and next to.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybumps: Learning Activities: Spatial Concepts: Birds in a Row
Move birds in and out of line to create and practice various spatial relationships.
Other
The True Size
In an effort to illustrate the spatial concepts of maps, this program provides the ability to select countries or continents and move them over others to better visualize the sizes of each of them.
Other
Ggmap: Spatial Visualization With Ggplot2 [Pdf]
In spatial statistics the ability to visualize data and models super imposed with their basic social landmarks and geographic context is invaluable. ggmap is a new tool which enables such visualization by combining the spatial...
Other
Overlap Maps
A map interactive provides an opportunity for observations through overlapping maps. Students are able to better recognize spatial awareness through this program.
Other
Link to Learning: Geometry and Spatial Sense
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Geometry and Spatial Sense expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Link to Learning: Geometry and Spatial Sense
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Geometry and Spatial Sense expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Visualizing
Is seeing believing? Explore visualizing and spatial reasoning with three dimensional shapes in this challenge from the NCTM Math Challenge for Families collection. Discover why visualization is essential skill in real world situations.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Roll These Dice
Sharpen your problem solving, sequencing, and spatial reasoning skills playing this interactive game, Roll The Dice. See how many different paths you can take to end up with the same result.
University of South Florida
Propel: Social Studies Education Geography
Geography studies the relationships between people, places, and environments by mapping information about them into a spatial context.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]
The objective of this lesson is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Mirror, Mirror [Pdf]
The goal of this PBS lesson plan is for young scholars to apply spatial reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking skills to assess which regular polygons will tessellate. A detailed lesson plan that includes related worksheets,...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Congruence of Triangles
Congruent means, "same size, same shape." Find out more about this concept at this test prep site with real world examples and pictures. Hands-on classroom activity and lots of practice. Knowledge of basic algebra and geometry concepts...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Molecules: The Movement of Atoms
Students work as engineers to learn about the properties of molecules and how they move in 3D space through the use of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics. They design and build molecular models and use different robotic sensors to control the...
Other
Bbc: Dimensions: How Big Really?
An interesting way to connect students with world events. Enter in your zip code and this site overlays a world event, such as floods in Pakistan, to show the extent of the event. Included at Ancient Worlds, Evironmental Disasters,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry instructional activity on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this instructional activity engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Patterns and Picture Books
CarolHurst.com provides a sample chapter from Picturing Math, which teaches geometric concepts using picture books and activities.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning Quiz
This quiz consists of ten multiple-choice questions that focus on area, perimeter, ordered pairs, and angles. At the end of the quiz, a summary of the results is shown, and students may review missed questions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Treasure Hunt
Get hands-on with students in building a map with a class. Take students outside to a sandbox and work with them to build a map of campus. Once the map is drawn you can turn their design into a treasure hunt to assess map interpretation.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Upside Down (Pdf)
What lowercase letters read the same both upside down and right side up? If you have the answer, then you can handle this geometric symmetry math challenge. A one-page activity from the NTCM Math Challenge for Families collection....
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