Visual/Spatial - Picture/Space Smart
These learners like to draw and design. They are often good at picturing things in their minds and excel at subjects such as art, shop, design, geometry. These students have excellent visual memories and are great with estimation.
To develop visual-spatial intelligence, read stories with vivid visual images. Students can show understanding through drawing, painting, sculpting, and creating backdrops and scenery for class plays. Use videos, slides, art, puzzles, and maze to entire their visual/spatial skills.
Technology Applications and Tools that Assist this type of learning include:
- Wordle: Students create a visual representation of words, recognizing frequency and importance
- Chogger: Students create comic frames to tell a story or explain a concept
- Canva: Students can design posters, pictures, and other media images
- Educreations: Students become the expert by creating white board lessons and they can learn from others' lessons
- NovaMindMapping: Helps students visualize information
- GoogleMaps: Allows students to view anywhere in the world, and establish a perspective and understanding about where things are
- TuxPaint: Students pictures using digital paint tools
- ScribbleMaps: Students can draw and share maps
- PowToons: Students create visual cartoons to represent ideas and concepts or to tell a story
Other helpful classroom activities:
- Bulletin Boards: Have students design and assist with bulletin board designs
- Assist Art Teacher: Students may be interested in helping the art teacher with set up, clean up, or special activities; they can become apprentices!
To develop visual-spatial intelligence, read stories with vivid visual images. Students can show understanding through drawing, painting, sculpting, and creating backdrops and scenery for class plays. Use videos, slides, art, puzzles, and maze to entire their visual/spatial skills.
Technology Applications and Tools that Assist this type of learning include:
- Wordle: Students create a visual representation of words, recognizing frequency and importance
- Chogger: Students create comic frames to tell a story or explain a concept
- Canva: Students can design posters, pictures, and other media images
- Educreations: Students become the expert by creating white board lessons and they can learn from others' lessons
- NovaMindMapping: Helps students visualize information
- GoogleMaps: Allows students to view anywhere in the world, and establish a perspective and understanding about where things are
- TuxPaint: Students pictures using digital paint tools
- ScribbleMaps: Students can draw and share maps
- PowToons: Students create visual cartoons to represent ideas and concepts or to tell a story
Other helpful classroom activities:
- Bulletin Boards: Have students design and assist with bulletin board designs
- Assist Art Teacher: Students may be interested in helping the art teacher with set up, clean up, or special activities; they can become apprentices!