Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
This lesson plan helps students understand how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. Lots of resources are available to teachers and students at this website.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Building Perspectives App
Students use this App to develop their spatial visualization skills. They work with front, back, right, and left views of buildings in a city block to determine the height of each building in the city plan.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Computers in Chemistry at Cabrillo College
The Computers in Chemistry at Cabrillo College project creates visually compelling and effective educational chemistry software for both students and instructors. Includes molecular models, student exercises, tutorials, and posters that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Childhood Artifacts to Inspire a Narrative
This site contains a book review of Knots in My Yo-yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid, which is a memoir by Jerry Spinelli. A suggested activity is included that asks students to bring in important mementos that the students will...
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Right Time
You will need to do some visualizing to solve this "Right Time" problem. Have fun!
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do We See Illusions?
Why can't our extremely complex eyes render simple optical illusions? Surprise, surprise- it comes back to the brain, which has only evolved to encounter natural stimuli. Mark Changizi explains how the brain reckons with optical...
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PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
Other
Visual Literacy: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
This site was created through a partnering of several European universities and focuses on the concept of visual literacy, the comprehension of ideas and their meaning via images. This section of the site is a detailed image of the...
Other
Meditation Station
The official website of the Meditation Society of America offers information on what constitutes meditation with 108 meditation techniques, meditation classes, and links to related sites.
Other
Increased Comprehension With the Use of Imagery
Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki Tikki Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures
In this lesson plan, students will consider Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Meditation
This site from MayoClinic.com provides great information on meditation. The article is entitled, "Meditation: Calming your mind, body and spirit". Describes what meditation is and how it works, along with giving a list of links.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: How to Write a Descriptive Essay
This article provides seven steps to follow when writing a descriptive essay. Ideas for ways to incorporate sensory details are emphasized. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 15: Frederick
In this instructional activity, students will listen to the tradebook, Frederick, a book written by Leo Lionni. Students will engage in visualization as a post-reading acitivity. Then students will create drawings of places that are...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Picture This: Visualization
Students will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: What Is a Tessellation?
The Math Forum defines and illustrates geometric tessellation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Decompose Figures to Find Volume (Unit Cubes)
Find the volume of irregular 3D figures made up of unit cubes by dividing the figures into rectangular prisms and finding the volume of each part. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly,...
Auburn University
Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding
How do you assess phoneme awareness and decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this question on phoneme awareness and decoding.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Those Cells Look Good Enough to Eat.
This is a student led activity utilizing visualization and association to memorize the parts of animal and plant cells. Students will work cooperatively to develop drawings to connect the parts of cells to one of their favorite things:...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns
Encourage students to use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to build their own patterns or recreate one from given square arrays.
Chateau Meddybemps
Spatial Concepts
Explore spatial concepts with these activities. Use them to aid in-class discussions about spatial sense or as group or partner activities.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Visualizing
Is seeing believing? Explore visualizing and spatial reasoning with three dimensional shapes in this challenge from the NCTM Math Challenge for Families collection. Discover why visualization is essential skill in real world situations.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Rasmol & Chime
This site from the University of Massachusetts links to downloadable freeware (Rasmol and CHIME) which are required to view 3-D images common on organic chemistry tutorials.