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Developing Visual-Spatial Intelligence

This document describes visuo-spatial intelligence, which refers to the ability to use symbolic systems and transform visual perceptions. People with this intelligence have good spatial organization and can solve spatial problems. The document then provides examples of activities to develop this intelligence in the classroom for younger and older students, such as games, drawings, and visual projects.

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Developing Visual-Spatial Intelligence

This document describes visuo-spatial intelligence, which refers to the ability to use symbolic systems and transform visual perceptions. People with this intelligence have good spatial organization and can solve spatial problems. The document then provides examples of activities to develop this intelligence in the classroom for younger and older students, such as games, drawings, and visual projects.

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VISUAL-SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE

Definition and activities for its development in the classroom


It refers to the ability to use symbolic systems and perform
transformations of the initial perceptions one has. It is the ability to
images may be from the mind or the outside world.

The symbolic systems of this intelligence are ideographic languages, such as the
Chinese. People with visuo-spatial intelligence have good organization.
spatial. They can imagine, manage, and solve spatial problems with great accuracy.

Visuo-spatial intelligence requires skills related to: planning,


visualization of movements and figures in space (for example, in the game of tennis or
chess), organization of knowledge and interpretation and reading of maps.

Not all students who show visual abilities exhibit the same ones.
skills. Some may have a talent for drawing, others for construction
three-dimensional models and others as art critics.

People who show good visual-spatial intelligence exhibit the following


characteristics:

They learn by watching and observing.

They recognize faces, objects, shapes, colors, details, and scenes.


They orient themselves easily in space, for example, when they move and travel.
They perceive and produce mental images, think through drawings, and visualize them.
simpler details.
They use visual images as aids to remember information.
They decipher graphs, schemes, maps, and diagrams.
They learn very easily through graphic representation or through media
visuals.
They have fun doodling, drawing, sculpting, or reproducing objects.
They like to build three-dimensional products, such as origami objects.
(bow ties, houses, containers). They are capable of mentally changing the shape of a
object: how to fold a piece of imagined paper into a figure
complex, visualizing its new shape.
They can mentally move and rotate objects in space to determine how they
they relate to other objects: for example, changing the mechanism of the parts of
a machinery.
Come things in different ways or from 'new perspectives'.
They perceive both subtle and obvious patterns.
They create representations of concrete or visual information.
They are skilled at making figurative, abstract, spatial designs or works.
original art.

Activities to develop this intelligence

For the little ones:

Plasticine
Pelotas
Figures of inclusion
Hoop games
Cubes
Mosaics
Tempera

For the elderly

Create pictorial representations of what they learned in a unit by doing


a picture, a drawing or a mind map.
Create a collage to present the facts, concepts, and questions about...
Use graphs to illustrate, to communicate what I understand about...
Carry out practical work such as video or photographs, working in small groups.
groups, for...
Use color, shapes, or images in your work to demonstrate...
Create frames, maps, charts... photo album for...
Create a poster or a mural, a propaganda or advertisement for...
Use a memory system to learn ...
Create a work of art for..
Develop architectural drawings for...
Vary the size and shape to...
Create a color code for the process of ...
Illustrate, paint, draw, sculpt, or build...
Use the projector to teach...
Use technology to...
Guided imagination...
Use fantasy to...
Use slides and movies to...
Playing with puzzles, visual mazes...
Appreciate art.
Create visual metaphors...
Do exercises in visual thinking...

Resources to develop this intelligence

The main resource needed is good planning and teamwork.


part of the teachers of the different subjects, thinking and planning the activities
what is going to be done with the students, taking into account the timing of
them and interdisciplinary work.

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