Visual-spacial

=Visual Spatial =



Visual Spatial intelligence is one of Howard Gardner's original seven intelligences. It highlights a person's ability to perceive and notice details in visual or spatial images, and to modify, transform, or manipulate them mentally. Skills associated with this intelligence include:
 * Conjuring up or eliciting mental images
 * Drawing or painting a visual likeness of an object
 * Making fine distinctions among very similar objects

Children with a high visual spatial intelligence easily learn to read and understand charts and maps, daydream often, are skilled at drawing, doodling and creating 3-D sculptures, enjoy movies, and like taking things apart and putting them back together. They strive to bring order by constructing, arranging, color coding, or fixing things.

Teaching Strategies: To engage children provide opportunities to paint, color, design; give students puzzles and 3-D activities like solving mazes, challenge their creativity, and encourage them to design buildings or clothing. Use concept maps to illustrate ideas instead of outlines.

Have students use technology to incorporate visual elements into classroom activities. Students can create videos, graphs, maps, and media programs using computers to enhance their understanding.

Possible career paths:
 * sculptor
 * mechanic
 * architect
 * interior designer
 * graphic designer

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Resources:

//Concept to classroom:// //Workshop:// //Tapping into multiple intelligences.// Retrieved from:[| http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index.html] Nbean73. //Howard Gardner spatial intelligence. Video. Retrieved from: []// Seider, Scott, Gardner, Howard. //Multiple intelligences//. Retrieved from [|http://www.education.com]

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