Spatial intelligence involves thinking in terms of pictures, videos, colors, and designs. Children that have a high amount of spatial intelligence tend to have bright imaginations and can easily conceptualize visuals. These students are designers and illustrators.
The greatest contribution towards this intelligence in my classroom has been the implementation of my website. Children have the opportunity to explore everything we do in class through pictures, videos, and graphics that are made available on the website. Sometimes a child needs to actually see how they are performing a movement, in order to correct it. In the future, if a child is having a hard time capturing the essence of a particular skill or movement, I want to video the child and allow him/her to watch their movement on my camera. Sometimes that is all it takes to properly correct something.
If you look at some previous posts on this blog that discussed farmers markets, I included some beautiful pictures of the fresh, natural foods that are available. This helps the students visualize the food, thus hopefully promoting a desire to visit a farmers market.
This year we also did a “wall of words.” All year long the student came up with words promoting health, wellness, and positive character. We designed our walls with these words. Students not only heard me talk about these words and concepts, but they got to see them and think about them every day.
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