This fictionalized but very real story of actual teacher experiences tells the story of a team-teaching effort to incorporate meaningful and important concepts in geometry and spatial relations into a project-based
In the activity, children are asked to view a picture (simple drawing, storybook page, complex geometrical shape, etc.), and describe what they notice in the picture. Then they draw what they see. This activity enables
This resource provides an overview of how teacher educators can engage participants in Describe, Draw, Describe (DDD). The components have been developed to provide support for connecting children’s ideas about spatial
This resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about shape. The basic idea is to help your participants gain some insight into the challenges children face in learning about shape.
A short session around spatial relations can support moving beyond thinking about spatial relations as identifying the shapes, expanding their conceptualization of spatial relations and helping them see opportunities to support learning.
Different approaches to learning what children know about shape and space. This article shows how participants can use observation, drawing, etc. to learn about children’s knowledge and language of geometric figures, physical
These tasks are designed to help you assess children’s concepts of shape. The protocol begins with relatively simple concepts like attributes of two dimensional shapes and ends with the analysis
