What types of explorations with geometry help build elementary children's spatial reasoning and visualization skills?
Using mental images helps to build elementary children's spatial reasoning and visualization skills. A classic task to help student's develop mental images is to cover up most of the shape and reveal it slowly while asking students to predict what shape is covered. Students need to work with models to help them make mental images. Have children play with shape blocks imprinting them in play dough, matching them, and tracing them. Another way to help students is to give students drawings of the faces of structures built with cubes and have them construct the building, or the other way around. There are many variations of this task. Have student's close their eyes and give them scenarios of real life shapes and different perspectives of which they can view it. From a birds viewpoint, a human, and even underground animals.
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