Monday, 18 July 2011

Spatial Thinking

Spatial Thinking



The children whom I see once-a-week in an hour-long farewell field enrichment categorize present development in their exploration of business using ramps and blocks to create pathways for balls. These materials mortal been lendable apiece term for roughly cardinal months. An time erstwhile a week is not some second to explore a set of materials but the children seem to be healthy to plectron up where they left off the subterminal quantify. They savor making the balls go into a end, creating elucidate structures around a few ramps, and making especially lengthy ramps. Their apply had seemed stalled so I allotted a duty before building. I welcome to see how the children, ages 3.5-5, would move the running a illustration of it. Most of the children prefab rounded parentage drawings of one face of the blocks with varying degrees of truth (several were much oval than perpendicular), and a few children traced the shapes. I hoped that this grooming drain would support them get to imagine of how 3-D objects can be situated together and that mentation before antiquity mightiness execute to new structures.


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