Visual Spatial Learning Activities
Visual spatial learners think in pictures so use graphical and pictorial methods of working with ideas and presenting information. When planning lessons ask yourself:

1. How can the topic be illustrated?
2. How can my child ‘show’ me what he has learned?

Teach Lessons Using:

• Visuals – “a picture is worth a thousand words”
• Flow charts to teach processes
• Colored pens to distinguish parts (show parts of speech in a sentence, spelling patterns, divisor/dividend, etc.)
• Videos
• Field trips
• Highlighting, underlining, and drawing images while teaching
• Discovery – capitalize on your child’s pattern-finding strengths
• Reading aloud
• Visuals hung up around the room (i.e. Greek & Latin word parts)
• Unit charts to introduce the big picture

Have Your Visual Spatial Learner:

• Draw while listening to lectures
• Use webbing to brainstorm, organize information for writing (pre-writing), or analyze stories and characters
• Use concept mapping to show knowledge of a subject and its relationships
• Map locations of a story setting, historical events, geographical features
• Work with math manipulatives
• Use graphic organizers for just about everything. Introduce or recap a unit, analyze literature, explain cycles and sequences, pre-writing and brainstorming
  are just a few examples.
• Create storyboards for creative writing and literary analysis
• Dramatize or demonstrate the concept
• Draw pictures of events on a timeline
• Research using websites and videos
• Create picture cards for learning spelling words, math facts, etc.
• Create graphs and charts to show the results of research assignments or to answer workbook questions
• Construct models
• Create collages, posters, and murals of a concept or to summarize a unit
• Use computer software such as Eyewitness Encyclopedia

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