Learning Lab Activity - Measuring and working with our spatial skills

A favorite activity of preschool children, is to pour, measure, and sift objects. This activity uses a mixture of beans and pasta, and the children use a variety of kitchen "tools" as they experiment and discover ways to move the mixture from container to container (with many to choose from!). They are developing spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and cooperation as they work with others around our project table.

Children with high Visual-Spatial Intelligence are the artists among us. These children think in pictures and images, and store information in a non-sequential fashion, which is a strength of right-brain processing. They have rich internal imagery making them very imaginative and creative. They are visual learners, and are also very observant of the world around them, noticing subtleties and details that we usually miss. They have an excellent awareness of space, the orientation of their body and others. This spatial awareness gives them skills in drawing, doing puzzles, mazes, and any task that requires fine-motor manipulation.