What Would That Lesson Look Like?:
Teaching to Visual/Spatial Intelligence

Reading

Draw the floorplan for the story you are reading and map out the action

Draw the floorplan for the story you are reading and map out the action

Play Pictionary with vocabulary words generated by the reading

Create a collage expressing the theme of the story

Describe visually each character; include more detail than the author

Writing/Grammar

Writing/Grammar

Draw a map of the ideas in your essay

Choose a shape that describes the movement in each of your paragraphs and explain; OR choose a shape that describes the development of ideas in your entire essay and explain

Write so there is a visual detail in each sentence of your essay

Categorize adjectives by visual or tactile category such as color, shape, texture, size, etc.

Mathematics

Do a survey of students in your class and graph the results

Practice math facts with manipulatives

Estimate measurement using sight and touch and then measure to check your estimates

Color code mathematic operation signs

Create an interlocking jigsaw puzzle that shows how a math problem is solved; make sure the appropriate steps lock into each other

Keep a notebook of patterns you notice outside of class; bring in samples to class