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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Oscar's Rotten Ride
Learn spatial relations with Oscar the Grouch as you collect trash that is over, under, or between different objects!
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Relativity Metric Program
Graphical visualization of how the relative motion of two events affects their spatial and temporal separation in special relativity.
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 Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Street Party
Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
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,...
Other
Lego Foundation: The Role of Play in Children's Development
This article reviews research that has been conducted in relation to the five types of play, namely physical play, play with objects, symbolic/semiotic play, pretend play, and games with rules.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Pantry Search
Put children in charge of building a pantry that Corporal Cup would be proud of. This activity will help them use direction, distance, and location, visualize placement and positioning, and describe relative positions, such as "next to,"...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Semiregular Tessellations
This one page Mathworld site has a number of examples of semiregular tessellations. A definition and a small amount of related information is given at the bottom of the page.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Fire Hydrant
Discover how the geometric shape of an object directly relates to its usefullness in this math challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection. A one page activity that you can print or download.
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...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Geometry: Introduction for Primary Students
These lessons are designed to guide young children through an introduction to geometry. Children learn to recognize shapes and to create patterns, and explore spatial relations and symmetry. Each activity is aligned to mandated standards.
McGill University
Ear Cutting for Simple Polygons: Introduction
This site gives the definitions for various polygon-related material.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Identifying Traits
Investigate the relationship between shapes and identifying traits or characteristics. A concise lesson that explores physical, chemical, and observable traits in the shapes around us. Build on this knowledge by playing the Web Colors...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Cubed
Use the shapes provided and figure out how they fit together to make a 3 X 3 cube at this one page website. The solution is readily available right at the website.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: M. C. Escher
This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Stereochemistry of Ethane
View a 3D molecular model of ethane and see how changing temperature affects its movement.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Stereochemistry Questions
This is a 10-question quiz pertaining to stereochemistry.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Positional Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson uses positional words to place objects on a background.
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