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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...
Stanford University
Stanford University: Spatial History Project
Several individual projects are going on under the umbrella of the Spatial History Project. These projects are developed and worked on by students, staff, and scholars as they expand studies within the humanities through spatial,...
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Building Perspectives App
Students use this App to develop their spatial visualization skills. They work with front, back, right, and left views of buildings in a city block to determine the height of each building in the city plan.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's in a Box?
The class has been contracted to work for a box factory. They are to make cube shaped jewelry boxes. Students determine how many different nets are possible and then analyze the resulting cubes. This real-world situation helps to develop...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Prepositions of Spatial Relationships
Maintained by the Purdue University Writing Lab, this tutorial has pictures to represent the various relationship among objects in a given space. Good for visual learners.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Visualizing Carbon Pathways
This instructional activity introduces students to visualization capabilities available through NASA's Earth Observatory, global map collection, NASA NEO and ImageJ. Students build several animations of satellite data that illustrate...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Visual Patterns in Tessellations
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan examines the mathematical nature of art, tilings and tessellations. Learners will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and our...
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.
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: All in the Mind
You will have to use visualization to help you solve this challenge. At this one page website, you will be able to check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Street Party
Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Dicey
If you can visualize a cube and turn it around in your mind, then this is the challenge for you. This one page website has the solution available to check your thinking.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns
Encourage students to use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to build their own patterns or recreate one from given square arrays.
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.
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,"...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Tanagrams Puzzles for Kids
Explore shape recognition and visual spatial reasoning when you play this interactive tangram game. Answers can be checked immediately.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Green Cube, Yellow Cube
Think about the surface area of a cube. At this one page website, you use that information to complete the challenge. Solutions are offered right at the website.
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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Up and Down Stairs
Work with this cube problem and see if you can find a pattern. Then you can check your solution with solutions already submitted.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a House
Make a House is an activity for early elementary age children. Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students will also exercise visual spatial skills while positioning the...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Halloween Activty: Pumpkin Matching
A game challenging students to match pumpkins by combining, categorizing, and visual spatial skills. Move quickly and make sure to keep the pumpkins from touching the sides.
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...
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.