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We have developed several approaches to get
students to
think spatially using little or no technology. The focus is to help
students
learn to increase their spatial thinking skills.
The three exercises are: Visual
Recognition, Mapping the Neighborhood, and Scaling. These are useful in
and of themselves and introduce many key concepts explored in online
mapping (GIS)
exercises.
Feel free to download these exercises and use them in your classroom.
Each is available in either Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat
format.
Word
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Scale and Level of Detail
- Three worksheets showing a house's floor plan; students
create a new diagram and rescale it using a given ratio
(i.e. 1:4). The lesson also introduces the concepts of
generalization and symbolization.
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Mapping the Neighborhood
- Google Maps is used to get a basic map of the streets in
your neighborhood, then students walk around the neighborhood, filling
in all the missing details. Discussion can include looking
for interesting patterns as well as asking questions about the layout
of the neighborhood.
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Visual Recognition -
Teams will have a digital camera, as well as the set of neighborhood
pictures they need to replicate. As they find each location, they will
take a picture that looks as close as possible to the original one,
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