Visualization Activities

Overview and Information

  Overview: Visual Thinking Activities Project Visual Thinking Activities Database Outline for this page: Background | The Goal of this Project | Q & A | General Guidelines for Activities in the Database | Comments on Terminology and Purpose | Link to the Database Itself Background Visual thinking involves mental processes of representing, analyzing, and …

The Database

Click here to go to the database of Visual Thinking Activities Database. The Goal: Compile an annotated list of high quality learning activities, in a usable form, that can be used by students to grow their visual thinking skills. For more information see Overview and Information.  

Potential Sites

Note: The Database itself should have selected learning activities.  (It should not be drinking from a fire hose.) This page had links to web sites that have lists (and lists of lists), from which to pull selected activities for the database. Sites with Potential Visualization Activities More activities for logic at https://www.puzzle-skyscrapers.com/ https://solveme.edc.org/ 3 games …

Why?

Why are Visual Thinking Skills Valuable? This page has links to articles and research that have shown that visual thinking skills are useful and that they can be developed. Research Articles The impact of an intervention program on students’ spatial reasoning: student engagement through mathematics-enhanced learning activities (2018) by T Lowrie, T Logan, D Harris, …